Change management

Like any corporate change, gender balance requires leadership.

Denial dogged my travels around the world these past weeks. At a World Economic Forum gathering in Dubai just before Dubai World’s debt problems made headlines, the head Sheikh touted Dubai’s superiority over the West for problems that Dubai had seemingly avoided. But the idle cranes and empty buildings I saw were monuments to denial […]

When business conditions change, the most successful companies are often the slowest to adapt. To avoid being left behind, executives must understand the true sources of corporate inertia.

Twenty years from now, the typical large business will have half the levels of management and one third the managers of its counterpart today. Work will...

Stick to the broad strategic guidelines but adapt your tactics if the market shifts.

Yves Morieux, director of the BCG Institute for Organization, argues that imposing formal processes, structures, and guidelines only makes things more...

It's essential-but not always easy-to learn to delegate.

Start paying less attention to your own innovation speed limits and more attention to your customers'.

What do IBM, Texas Instruments, Owens Corning, and Duke Power have in common? They’re all redesigning their organizations around their core processes—and reaping enormous benefits as a result.

Over the last decade a new technology has begun to take hold in American business, one so new that its significance is still difficult to evaluate. While many aspects of this technology are uncertain, it seems clear that it will move into the managerial scene rapidly, with definite and far-reaching impact on managerial organization. In […]

The old ways of setting and implementing strategy are failing us, writes the author of Leading Change, in part because we can no longer keep up with the...

In 2006, General Electric launched its Leadership, Innovation, and Growth (LIG) program to support CEO Jeffrey Immelt's priority of achieving corporate...

Continuous improvement at Toyota Motor Company is now a business legend. For three decades, Toyota enlisted its employees in a relentless drive to find faster, more efficient methods to develop and make low-cost, defect-free cars. The results were stupendous. Toyota became the benchmark in the automobile industry for quality and low cost. The same, however, […]

How your organization can find new ways to fulfill its core purpose.

It’s time to make transformation empirical.

Managers must build change into their organization's structure. This means being prepared to abandon everything that the organization does as well as...

As a manager, people are your most important asset. If the team isn't right, even a perfect business plan can't succeed.

Companies often face new rivals, technologies, regulations, and other environmental changes that seem to come out of left field. How can they see these...

It’s dangerous to rush to judgment when it comes to transformational change.

Fusilier Technology is in disarray. Its vice-president of sales is leaving, the company's new growth strategy to sell customized business solutions has...