Authors Lafley and Martin bring their combined academic and business experience to bear in developing their recipe for building successful strategy. Lafley is the former Chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble. Martin is the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. With over twenty years of working together, the…
Author Brad Feld, is a serial entrepreneur who now applies his knowledge to building successful, entrepreneurial cities. Using his experience with the city of Boulder, CO, Feld develops a model for building entrepreneurial ecosystems that can be transferred to any city that has the resources necessary for successful venturing. After a brief review of generally…
The author investigates the relationship between the EU and its developing world partners to understand the role of competitiveness and cooperation agreements. The article suggests that the EU uses its bilateral and regional agreements as means to direct the alignment of foreign practices and rules with that of the EU. On one level, this policy…
Gallagher develops a framework for evaluating the risks and benefits of strategies that focus on dominant design and standards, comparing the two approaches for gaining marketplace advantage. He claims that they are not the same thing and that it is important to understand the differences. Standards results from competition between different interface protocols and are…
The World Economic Forum recently released a study it conducted with Bain & Company and the World Bank on the relationship between supply chain barriers, tariffs and the world GDP. Combining case studies of individual companies and industries with empirical macroeconomic analysis, they conclude that “reducing supply chain barriers to trade could increase GDP up…
Authors Atkinson (PhD UNC Chapel Hill, President of Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) and Ezell (BS Georgetown University, Senior Analyst at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) believe that innovation is central to the US’s ability to recover economically and to return to a world competitiveness leadership position. Studying historical patterns from 1970 forward, they conclude…
The INSEAD-World Intellectual Property Organization co-published study of 141 countries consists of 84 indicators that differentiate the countries regarding innovation. Keeping R&D investment steady across the years appears to result in higher innovation than does merely investing in innovation during crises. The study finds strong support for public-private partnerships driving innovation. It also supports the…
The World Economic Forum produces the Global Competitiveness Index which, since 2005, measures national competitiveness in terms of microeconomic and macroeconomic factors. Competitiveness is defined as “the set of institutions, policies and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country.” The more competitive the economy, the more likely it is to sustain growth. …
Following on Govindarajan’s field experience as chief innovation consultant to GE in China during the period in which it developed the compact ultrasound machine for use in rural villages where access to medical facilities was difficult, the authors contend that a new field of exploratory strategy research is emerging that deserves theoretical model building and…
Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (voices that matter), is an educator, author, and experienced international journalist who specializes in visual journalism and design. Using maps, data sets, diagrams and related facts, the author demonstrates how they can be brought together to reveal new meaning. In the profile…