Amplifying innovation with partnerships
With nearly 70 percent of CEOs aiming to partner extensively, what will make this a differentiating strategy?
Videos: CEOs discuss their partnering priorities
Partnering to drive innovation: Royal Dutch Shell CEO
Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell discusses how the days of isolated innovation are coming to an end, and how strategic partnerships - some not so obvious - are a key to success.
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The role of the CEO in partnering: Royal Dutch Shell CEO
Peter Voser, CEO of Shell talking about adding the role of the CEO in partnering. Part of a series of CEO videos in support of the IBM 2012 Global CEO Study.
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Key study findings
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Top employee success factors (00:01:22)
How to understand customers (00:01:05)
Ways of connecting with customers (00:01:20)
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Outperformers and big data Coming in June
Top CEO success factors Coming in July
Impact of external forces Coming in August
Sources of sustained value Coming in September
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Industry and market segment perspectives
- Electronics: Implement extensive organizational changes to deepen understanding of customer needs (474KB)
- Energy and Utilities: Investments in customer insights are critical (470KB)
- Financial Services (Banking and Financial Markets): Better insights and better customer experiences (472KB)
- Insurance: Extending traditional ways of interacting with consumers (471KB)
- Midmarket Insights: Embrace collaboration and transparency to foster innovation (US)
- Government: Change the face of citizen and customer communication (502KB)
- Healthcare: Identify and build critical employee competencies (503KB)
- Life Sciences: Turn better data access and insights into greater customer understanding (506KB)
- Media and Entertainment: Use cross-channel digital revenue models based on knowing customers better (509KB)
- Telecommunications: Use insight to build customer advocacy (502KB)
- Travel and Transportation: Seek more strategic and tailored customer relationships (496KB)
CEO Study infographics
- The role of social media (US)
- How outperformers engage customers (US)
- How outperformers empower employees through collaboration Coming in July
- How outperformers use partnerships to amplify innovation Coming in August
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- Event replay: May 22, 2012 C2-MTL keynote presentation. Speaker: Marc Chapman, Managing Partner, IBM Global Business Services. Learn about insightful CEO Study implications for organizations across industries worldwide, featuring a number of client examples. 45 minutes long
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