BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Mike Brown.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

2016) presented three models on supply chain sustainability: Reactive strategy Results are achieved through the implementation of sustainability codes of conduct with a focal company using assessment to measure the results. Relationships and leadership can be transactional and/or transformational. Gosling et al. Norbert Bol.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We worked with a client to facilitate an information technology strategy vision. From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. Despite repeated requests, no one ever surfaced this type of strategy document.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 29, 2015

Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times “ The different articles in this special edition all focus on the sustainability behavour of companies in tough times. Companies have used their sustainability strategy to maximize strategic value by focussing more on the real customer needs and reduce costs.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 17, 2016

To answer this question, I will use the upcoming article in June 2016 in the International Journal of Information Management about information management for innovation networks. In the article the major challenges are described to create new products and services where resources, processes and skill sets of others are needed.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 20, 2016

This month a new scientific article (Matthies et al., What is behind the leadership shift in sustainable development from politicians to CEOs? In the service industry, suppliers and customers think continuously about improving the process of value creation to remain competitive in a long term perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production.

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Norbert Bol

MAY 16, 2016

The International Journal of Information Management will publish in the August 2016 edition an article (Hau & Kang, 2016) that reveals more insight in the role that lead users have in these online user-communities. However as lead users have a high benefit and have large social trust, this can also result in a certain bias.

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Trends Innovation Marketing Open Innovation 60

Norbert Bol

MARCH 28, 2016

Last week I wrote in my Strategy Blog ‘ Creating more value in services ‘, that more value can be created in services when ecosystem services are included. Related to diversity and the creation of value an interesting article came online last week (Reypens et al., In the article Reypens et al.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 6, 2016

Last week I wrote in StrategyBlogs that bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy implementation is possible through a true dialogue with your stakeholders. In the current edition of Business Horizons there is an interesting article about secondary stakeholders and their growing influence. Definitions.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 31, 2016

Last week in Strategy Blogs we discussed the topic of innovation speed and how this positively relates to organizational performance. In the March 2016 edition of Environmental Science & Policy there is an article by Gorddard et al. Next week in Strategy Blogs: Stakeholder co-creation during innovation. Norbert Bol.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 3, 2016

In the June 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article how green jobs differ from non-green jobs. This article confirms the general understanding of the positive effects of green jobs. These jobs are less routinised and can be important drivers for innovation and the seeking of new knowledge and skills.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The article shows that innovation is persistent (innovation leads to new innovations), whereby product innovation is most persistent and most path-dependent (true state).

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 10, 2016

In the July 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article (Schemmann et al., The sourcing of ideas occurs on online idea crowdsourcing platforms that are open to everybody who has access to the Internet and no specific training or expertise is needed. Most studies about idea crowdsourcing focus on the phase of idea generation.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Most managers do not resist this pressure as 78% of the managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value.

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