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The Global Innovation 1000
Why Culture is Key: The 2011 Global Innovation 1000
In past editions of the Global Innovation 1000, we found that companies focused on developing cutting-edge products and services fall under one of three fundamental innovation strategy models: Need Seekers, Market Readers, and Tech Drivers. This year, our seventh annual study of the world’s 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders focuses on the link between the three strategy models, culture, and organization—and their effect on companies’ alignment to innovation objectives and the impact on financial performance. The key finding: culture is key to innovation success, and its impact on performance is measurable.read more >

 

Understanding Capabilities-Driven Strategy
The power of coherence: A company's right to win in any market depends not just on external market positioning, and not just on internal capabilities — but on a coherent strategy that aligns them at every level.read more >
Do You Have the Capabilities To Win?
Many of the world's most successful companies recognize supply chain excellence as a powerful profit driver — one that can help to drive outsized performance. Booz & Company has developed a Supply Chain Strategy Profiler that lets you test the coherence of your supply chain capabilities against your defined strategy to ensure sufficient alignment for premium returns.
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Building Capabilities
Despite investing heavily in formal initiatives such as incentives or training programs, organizations often find it difficult to drive the critical behavior changes required to elevate business performance. Motivating Behavior Change: Boosting Performance by Mobilizing Pride Builders, describes how “Pride Builders” — employees who instinctively know how to connect what drives individuals with their day-to-day activities and thereby instill pride in the work — can play a substantial role in making behavior change happen.read more >
World Economic Forum Booz & Company at the World Economic Forum 2012
Chairman Joe Saddi, CEO Shumeet Banerji, and a group of Booz & Company partners — including DeAnne Aguirre, Dr. Klaus-Peter Gushurst, and Per-Ola Karlsson — will attend the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25-29, 2012. They will be active in a number of panels and other events surrounding the theme of this year's event, The Great Transformation: Shaping New Model.read more >
Industry Perspectives for 2012 Industry Perspectives for 2012
Our industry perspectives, written by the leadership of Booz & Company’s industry practices, examine industry-wide trends, identify key decisions leaders need to make in 2012, and discuss the capabilities that companies need to build in order to be successful in this challenging global economic environment.read more >
The Secrets to Strategy Execution: The Idea in Practice The Secrets to Strategy Execution: The Idea in Practice
How can a company execute its strategy more effectively without making costly, disruptive changes to its organizational structure? Originally published in The Harvard Business Review, this "Idea in Practice" piece uses the story of a highly successful global company to illustrate how to uncover serious obstacles preventing your company from meeting its goals.read more >