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Enduring Insights

A changing world requires changing approaches to management. The content highlighted here addresses challenges that have long been significant for companies and senior executives worldwide, and that remain ripe with possibility for future breakthroughs.

Change management

Change Management

Spearheading organizational change has long been a formidable leadership challenge. Boost your odds of success with these tips on building the case for change, transforming employee behavior, and maintaining momentum.more

Customer engagement

Customer Engagement

For more than a decade, organizations have been rethinking how they reach customers increasingly empowered by information and options. In developed and emerging markets alike, managing this ongoing transition is becoming a company-wide imperative.more

Digital competition

Digital Competition

Big data, analytics, and intelligent networks, following in the footsteps of other forms of information technology, are transforming competition. The quest for a more responsive, innovative, and efficient digital organization is a high priority.more

Industry dynamics

Industry Dynamics

As new players and market opportunities upend industries, leaders can gain powerful insights from the experience of sectors other than their own and from the strategic principles that continue to shape the nature of competition.more

Innovation and growth

Innovation & Growth

Globalization, urbanization, and technological change are transforming innovation and growth. Explore the implications for senior leaders—and the enduring fundamentals.more

Leadership

Leadership

Today’s leaders confront extreme but hardly unprecedented uncertainty and complexity. Explore timely and timeless tips for top executives seeking to maximize their effectiveness.more

Managing for value

Managing for Value

Change may be a constant today, but so are certain business fundamentals: in the long run, a business is worth the cash flows it generates, and smart pricing strategies can materially enhance them.more

Operational excellence

Operational Excellence

Great operations are not just more efficient—they’re a source of competitive advantage. Explore how companies are creating agile supply chains and how lean-management techniques have revolutionized manufacturing and services.more

Organizational effectiveness

Organizational Effectiveness

When companies pay attention to organizational fundamentals—such as long-term health, global effectiveness, and the role of internal networks—they can compete more successfully.more

Strategic insight

Strategic Insight

Winston Churchill once noted, “However beautiful the strategy, you should look occasionally at the results.” Consider how the art of formulating and executing strategy has evolved along with our rapidly changing world.more