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    Own the Future: 50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group

    Own the Future: 50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group

    by Michael S. Deimler (Editor), Richard Lesser (Editor), David Rhodes (Editor), Janmejaya Sinha (Editor)


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      ISBN-13: 9781118651766
    • Publisher: Wiley
    • Publication date: 04/16/2013
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 384
    • File size: 2 MB

    Michael Deimler is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's Atlanta office and was the global leader of BCG's strategy practice from 2005 to 2012. He coedited The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy (Wiley). He holds an MBA from The Wharton School.

    RichARD Lesser is the president and chief executive officer of BCG. Before that, he was the firm's regional chairman of North and South America. He is based in New York and also has an office in Beijing. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

    David Rhodes is the chairman of BCG's global practices. He is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's London office and coauthor of Accelerating out of the Great Recession: How to Win in a Slow-Growth Economy. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

    Janmejaya Sinha is the chairman of BCG's Asia Pacific region. He is based in Mumbai and holds a PhD from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments ix

    Introduction 1

    I Adaptive 7

    1 Why Strategy Needs a Strategy 11
    Martin Reeves, Michael Deimler, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns

    2 Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage 19
    Martin Reeves and Michael Deimler

    3 Systems Advantage 27
    Martin Reeves and Alex Bernhardt

    4 Adaptive Leadership 33
    Roselinde Torres, Martin Reeves, and Claire Love

    5 Competing on Capabilities 41
    George Stalk, Jr., Philip Evans, and Lawrence E. Shulman

    II Global 53

    6 Globality: The World beyond Globalization 55
    Harold L. Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam K. Bhattacharya

    7 The New Global Challengers 61
    Marcos Aguiar, Arindam K. Bhattacharya, Thomas Bradtke, David C. Michael, Tenbite Ermias, Whitney Haring-Smith, David Lee, Michael Meyer, Andrew Tratz, Masao Ukon, and Bernd Waltermann

    8 Winning in Emerging-Market Cities 67
    David Jin, David C. Michael, Paul Foo, Jos´e Guevara, Ignacio Pe˜na, Andrew Tratz, and Sharad Verma

    9 What the West Doesn’t Get about China 75
    George Stalk, Jr. and David C. Michael

    10 The African Challengers 81
    Lionel Ar´e, Sami Chabenne, Patrick Dupoux, Lisa Ivers, David C. Michael, and Yves Morieux

    III Connected 89

    11 The Digital Manifesto 91
    David Dean, Sebastian DiGrande, Dominic Field, and Paul Zwillenberg

    12 Data to Die For 99
    Simon Kennedy and David Matheson

    13 The Collision of Power and Portability 105
    Philip Evans

    14 China’s Digital Generations 3.0: The Online Empire 111
    David C. Michael, Christoph Nettesheim, and Yvonne Zhou

    IV Sustainable 117

    15 The Benefits of Sustainability-Driven Innovation 119
    David Kiron, Nina Kruschwitz, Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, and Eugene Goh

    16 Creating Practical Consumer Value from Sustainability 125
    Knut Haanaes, Catherine Roche, Jonathan Sharp, and Marty Smits

    17 Potential Impacts of the New Sustainability Champions 131
    David C. Michael, Kim Wagner, Knut Haanaes, Eugene Goh, Diederik Vismans, Jeremy Jurgens, and Lyuba Nazaruk

    V Customer First 135

    18 Breaking Compromises 137
    George Stalk, Jr., David K. Pecaut, and Benjamin Burnett

    19 Brand-Centric Transformation: Balancing Art and Data 143
    Dylan Bolden, Antonella Mei-Pochtler, Rohan Sajdeh, Gaby Barrios, Erin George, Keith Melker, and Deran Taskiran

    20 Unlocking Growth in the Middle: A View from India and China 151
    Zhenya Lindgardt, Christoph Nettesheim, and Ted Chan

    21 Treasure Hunt 159
    Michael J. Silverstein

    VI Fit to Win 169

    22 High-Performance Organizations 171
    Vikram Bhalla, Jean-Michel Caye, Andrew Dyer, Lisa Dymond, Yves Morieux, and Paul Orlander

    23 Shaping Up: The Delayered Look 179
    Ron Nicol

    24 Getting More from Lean: Seven Success Factors 183
    Pascal Cotte, Adam Farber, Amyn Merchant, Petros Paranikas, Harold L. Sirkin, and Michael Zinser

    25 The Demand-Driven Supply Chain 189
    John Budd, Claudio Knizek, and Bob Tevelson

    26 Pricing Fluency 195
    Sylvain Duranton, Jean-Manuel Izaret, and Rich Hutchinson

    27 The IT Organization of the Future 201
    Jeanne W. Ross, Stephanie L. Woerner, Stuart Scantlebury, and Cynthia M. Beath

    VII Value-Driven 207

    28 The Experience Curve Reviewed 211
    Bruce Henderson

    29 The Rule of Three and Four: A BCG Classic Revisited 215
    Martin Reeves, Michael Deimler, George Stalk, Jr., and Filippo L. Scognamiglio Pasini

    30 The CEO as Investor 221
    Gerry Hansell and Dieter Heuskel

    31 Focusing Corporate Strategy on Value Creation 227
    Jeffrey Kotzen, Eric Olsen, Frank Plaschke, Daniel Stelter, and Hady Farag

    32 Powering Up for Postmerger Integration 235
    Jean-Michel Caye, Jeanie Daniel Duck, Daniel Friedman, Dan Jansen, Joe Manget, Alexander Roos, and Peter Strüven

    33 Resilience: Lessons from Family Businesses 243
    Nicolas Kachaner, George Stalk, Jr., and Alain Bloch

    VIII Trusted 251

    34 Social Advantage 253
    Martin Reeves, Dieter Heuskel, and Thomas Lewis

    35 From Reciprocity to Reputation 259
    Philip Evans

    36 The Return of the Politician 263
    Dieter Heuskel and Martin Reeves

    37 Collaboration Rules 267
    Philip Evans and Bob Wolf

    IX Bold 275

    38 Thinking in New Boxes 279
    Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny

    39 Rethinking Scenarios: What a Difference a Day Makes 285
    Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny

    40 Business Model Innovation: When the Game Gets Tough, Change the Game 291
    Zhenya Lindgardt, Martin Reeves, George Stalk, Jr., and Michael Deimler

    41 The Deconstruction of Value Chains 299
    Carl W. Stern

    42 Time-Based Management 303
    Thomas M. Hout and George Stalk, Jr.

    43 The New ‘‘Low Cost’’ 307
    Nicolas Kachaner, Zhenya Lindgardt, and David C. Michael

    44 The Hardball Manifesto 315
    George Stalk, Jr. and Rob Lachenauer

    45 Leading Transformation 319
    Andrew Dyer, Grant Freeland, Steve Gunby, and Cynthia Blendu

    X Inspiring 325

    46 Jazz vs. Symphony 327
    John S. Clarkeson

    47 Probing 331
    Jonathan L. Isaacs

    48 Smart Simplicity 335
    Yves Morieux

    49 Strategic Optimism: How to Shape the Future in Times of Crisis 343
    Hans-Paul Bürkner

    50 Lessons from My Three Decades with the Change Monster 349
    Jeanie Daniel Duck

    Contributors 355

    Index 365

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    The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale—along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility. Market leadership today is less of a predictor of leadership tomorrow. Therefore, senior executives today must strive to own the future.

    In Own the Future, The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative management consulting firms, offers a roadmap. Drawing on the firm’s experience advising organizations on how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, this book offers 50 ideas to help readers chart their organization’s path to future leadership. The articles are organized along ten attributes critical to success in the current environment—adaptive, global, connected, sustainable, customer-first, fit to win, value-driven, trusted, bold, and inspiring.

    The future may be unknowable, but The Boston Consulting Group offers insights from its 50 years of practice on how readers can position their organization to win—to change the game and to own the future.

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