Strategy+business has published a resilience report article: “Taking a Calmer View” by Klaus-Peter Gushurst, Ivan de Souza, and Vanessa Wallace. The authors point out that… “The financial sector’s prospects in the wake of crisis may be better than you think.” What are their arguments? “There is no sign of substantial risk of sovereign default in [...]

The authors Gary Neilson, Bruce A. Pasternack, and Decio Mendesofthe article  “The Four Bases of Organizational DNA” (strategy+business issue 33) pointed out that strategy is not enough: “Executives no longer believe that a strategy — consolidation, transformation, or breakaway — is enough. “We’ve made the right strategic decision, but my organization isn’t motivated or set [...]

I just read the article “The Next Industrial Imperative” published in strategy+business (issue 51, Summer 2008) written by Peter Senge, Bryan Smith & Nina Kruschwitz (reprint number 08205). They describe how Sweden has become more independent from oil by introducing innovations. “The Sweden story is a valuable model of what historians call “basic innovation”: fundamental [...]