Many executives believe that organizational culture is too squishy to be managed reasonably. So, when implementing new business models, strategies, or mergers and acquisitions, executives spend a lot of time on marketing analytics, financial analysis, mission, organization structure, key messages and talking points and leave the persuasion, change management, and the inevitable need to change [...]
InnovationOne Managing Partners Victor Assad and Nov Omana are attending the San Francisco Business Times' forum "Made in the Bay Area: Manufacturing Innovators" on August 11 at the Fairmont, 950 Mason Street, San Francisco, 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM. Learn more and register here . See you there!
Innovation remains a continuing concern for CEOs. Highly innovative companies, such as Tesla, Salesforce.com, and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, garner the admiration of others. Many executives, however, tell me that their CEOs resist taking steps to improve innovation for fear that their organizations will lose focus on current operations and miss their financial goals. Becoming a highly [...]
Or is it nearly impossible? Instead, should you just focus on fixing your business, and the rest will follow? These are the questions raised by a recent Harvard Business Review article by Harvard Professor Louis E. Kirstein and research associate Emily McTague.[i] After conducting interviews with excellent CEO’s, including Doug Baker, CEO of Ecolab, Richard [...]
