Strategy and change: Literature

When the time is right for business model innovation, the Three A's represent essential organizational capabilities: aligned, analytical and adaptable.

If Russian companies and its government take actions now to tackle issues in the areas of technology and innovation, the country is much more likely to meet, or exceed, its productivity and innovation targets.

IBM's transformation story may provide guidance to other senior leaders as they seek to implement change while successfully delivering consistent and differentiated performance.

Interview with Susanne Dirks, Manager of the IBM Institute for Business Values Global Center for Economic Development in Ireland.

A white paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in association with the IBM Institute for Business Value.

Top performers have a systemic view of operationalizing global integration - concurrent focus on elements of the R-O-I framework is vital: Repeatable processes, Optimized assets and integrated operations, along with three foundational elements: leadership, organizational structure and technology.

Today's organizations should consider developing new sources of operational, supply chain and customer information to gain new levels of insight for meeting sustainability and corporate social responsibility objectives.

Telecom companies must respond to shifts in communication patterns and control, created by the strong emergence of social computing, to position themselves to reverse declining revenue growth and market share.

Read about how Canadian banks can gain marketshare and attract new clients by becoming aware of client attitudes and taking steps to positively impact customer perceptions.

Examine the approach some industry leaders are using to make innovation a more regular occurrence.

For both the teen and boomer segments, service is the defining point for a successful shopping experience - this paper summarizes some key IBM research findings relevant to retail opportunities targeting these two groups.

To emerge from the economic downturn in a better position, CEOs and business leaders need to focus on value, exploit opportunities and act quickly. Learn how.

What exactly is business model innovation? A careful examination of 35 cases reveals three primary types of business model innovation and explores which generate success and which seem easier to implement.

Overcome obstacles and increase the odds of successful innovation by understanding the ABCs of collaborative innovation.

How emerging consumer preferences are met can open new avenues for consumer satisfaction, create new revenue streams, define new business models and accelerate technology deployment, lighting the way to a participatory utility network.

Three strong business strategies - Market Share Grabbing, Value Chain Stretching and Niche Playing - can help position companies in the metals, mining and forest and paper industries to become globally integrated enterprises.

Within an industry in need of the type of collaboration that gave rise to the biotech era, new models are emerging that can facilitate partnership between life sciences companies and academic institutions, diminish the sting of past failures and result in significant therapeutic advances.

This paper describes how businesses are improving performance and creating value by applying eight new rules in using the emerging technologies of Web 2.0, social computing, service oriented architecture, 3D Internet and virtual worlds.

Wealth management firms must reach out and collaborate with their clients to build compelling, distinct value propositions and become customer focused enterprises by integrating their clients' views and attitudes into the design and execution of core operations.

An update to a previous IBM Institute for Business Value study shows insurers in the Americas, like their European counterparts, suffer from a lack of consumer trust and that heightened transparency, service and flexibility will be necessary to reach the customer of the future.

With non-stop change as the "new normal," organizations can improve their project outcomes by better managing change in four key ways: acting on real insights, employing better skills, establishing solid methods and allocating the right investments.

To remain competitive as industry boundaries blur, telecom providers will require new sets of capabilities beyond the traditional strengths that telecom executives continue to emphasize.

Insurers have for years mistaken optimization for innovation, but true innovation requires a willingness to try something different to address persistent operational challenges.

Digital content opportunities could help telecommunications companies fend off competitive threats from cable rivals and grow revenues in new markets. But will telcos be able to take advantage of this potential?

Imaging biomarkers hold great promise to assuage some of society’s costliest challenges, and technology can accelerate progress as the full ecosystem - including government, academia, BioPharma industry and imaging industry - contributes toward achieving this vision.

The worldwide financial markets opportunity is set to double by 2015 - but firms may not be in a position to capture it.

All nations in developing and advanced economies have become such extensive users of information and communications technologies (ICT) that their economic success now depends on governments' wise promotion and deployment of ICT at a national level.

Governments should move to implement cohesive and collaborative identity management systems to provide safe cross-border travel, inhibit crime and terrorism and provide for data safety and privacy for their citizens.

The utility industry is undergoing tremendous change as historically passive ratepayers migrate into more participatory roles.

A new set of dynamics for the resurgent steel industry has created avenues of growth for those steelmakers that assume strong market positions– but has cast a shadow of uncertainly upon those companies either unable or unwilling to take advantage of today's opportunities.

The science of biomarker-enabled R&D is advancing quicker than general acceptance. To realize the full potential of biomarkers, the industry must take actions to increase the confidence of regulators, the medical community and the public at large.

Learn about the competitive challenge facing Japanese electronics companies and steps they can take to become global innovators.

This new IBM study offer insights on the changing ecosystems within the electronics industry and the steps Network Equipment Providers should take to try to survive the coming wave of convergence and consolidation.

With hardware sales slowing as a result of market saturation, mobile device makers may have the opportunity to use mobile Internet services as a new catalyst for growth.

Ireland again faces an opportunity to implement bold changes; by fully leveraging its size advantage for the development and implementation of innovative and rapid solutions for public sector reform, Ireland can substantially improve its chances of economic success and prosperity.

More customers are online that ever before, and banks should learn to use the new tools of Web 2.0 -- blogging, social networking and more -- to cost-effectively and efficiently reach an increasingly fragmented and dispersed customer base.

Technology can be used to both control and empower citizens, and governments should work toward a resolving this paradox by developing identity management solutions that provide security and engender trust, while maintaining personal privacy and civil liberty.

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In today's increasingly connected global economy, nations must collaborate and find ways to protect the social security entitlements of increasing numbers of migrant workers.

Chemical and petroleum companies often view risk management through a limited health, safety and environmental lens, but an IBM Institute for Business Value study reveals a distinct correlation between integrated risk management and market performance.

To decrease the gap between what executives think IT should be doing for grocery manufacturers and consumer products companies, and what, in reality, is being accomplished, companies should invest more time during project planning to more closely align expectations of IT performance with objectives.

To be successful in today's changing world, Investment promotion agencies and economic development organizations should understand the impact and business response to the six megatrends that require companies to innovate and refine their fundamental business models.

Confronted by multi-dimensionsal changes in its underlying ecosystem, automakers should focus on five key areas of differentiation to position themselves for success in 2020 and beyond.

For travel providers, market leadership will require new strategic decisions and key investments that improve both the customer experience and customer loyalty by acquiring and applying deeper customer insights.

For Brazilian banks, a new view of customer advocacy can become invaluable as they seek to differentiate their offerings and improve the profitability of customers - moving toward a well-balanced, customer-focused model can help them capitalize on their most valuable asset – their customers.

As the healthcare industry faces many challenges to the status quo worldwide, we envision the need for proactive, collaborative, systemic responses that will help providers to transform their existing service delivery models and to develop five essential competencies.

India's healthcare system faces considerable challenges, including quality of care, rising costs, and insufficient access for many citizens, but has the opportunity to avoid many of the problems faced by other developing countries by transforming health care financing, quality and delivery.

Global integration in the A&D industry is far from mature, and how a company responds to the challenge of a world that conducts business globally can be a key factor in helping to determine its future business success.

The global business environment requires new thinking to take advantage of opportunities and prosper despite the risks. Many Chemical and Petroleum companies are working towards enterprisewide standards to provide the governance, transparency and information integrity needed today.

Market advantage will lie with banks that rethink their strategy, structure and culture to reflect a changed reality; bankers say globalization is the single greatest opportunity and also its greatest threat – when it comes to the far-reaching effects of globalization, no bank is an island.