Purpose: This masterclass examines the blue ocean value innovation process, how it works in practice and how it has evolved since the publication of Blue Ocean Strategy (2005) by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne as explored in their new book their new book Blue Ocean Shift (2017)....

Purpose: This interview with the authors of Strategy – Beyond the Hockey Stick offers their insights into a major problem which has bedevilled the strategy process in too many companies over the years - the combination of bold but delusional “hockey-stick” forecasts and timid strategic...

Purpose: Interview with Gary Pisano about his latest book, Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation. Design/methodology/approach: Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for faculty development at Harvard Business School and one...

Purpose: Corporate innovation is an often misunderstood process, largely because managing it successfully requires inherently contradictory aims, such as control and freedom. This article looks at a variety of approaches by leading authorities. Design/methodology/approach: A number of recent...

Purpose: Whitney Johnson is interviewed about her latest book, Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018), which extends her disruptive innovation perspective on career development into a talent management strategy for...

Purpose: How can strategists and their companies learn to survive and thrive in this new “connected customer” competitive environment? This is the question that Nicholaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch set out to address in their latest book, Connected Strategy: Building Continuous...

Purpose: This masterclass examines how two important new books propose to achieve cost innovation, a value creation strategy that can transform an over-priced industry. Design/methodology/approach: In their book, marketing gurus Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law highlight the potential of...

Purpose: China’s biggest contribution to Africa’s modernization is more likely to come from the rapidly expanding number of Chinese migrants determined to seek their fortunes by setting up manufacturing businesses across the continent, according to Irene Yuan Sun in her new book The Next...

Purpose: The author explains how the story of China geo-political vision has recently taken a new turn under the leadership of Xi Jinping, and signals a major shift towards a more expansive and outward-looking economic policy. Design/methodology/approach: Understanding more fully what is...