Last week, 40 heads of strategy, intrapreneurs, and thought leaders convened in New York City for Outthinker Networks’ Executive Summit, hosted by BNY Mellon. Attendees discussed Leveraging Generative AI for Strategic Advantage and Innovation Portfolio Management/Resource Allocation with special guest Rita McGrath, strategic advisor and Columbia Business School professor.
Every two years, a leading group of management thinkers from around the globe convenes for a special event: the Thinkers50 Awards Gala. The aim of the event is to celebrate those who are pushing the envelope in management thinking and to provide a forum to share the current top ideas in business and management.
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Pricing is a critical component of your success as an organization. Get it right, and you firmly establish your value in the eyes of your customer. Get it wrong, and you might end up stuck on a rollercoaster, attempting to adjust and prove your worth.
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I recently had a flashback to my college days when my friend had just come back from a job interview. The interviewer had asked him, “What’s 25 times six divided by two?”
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In an environment of external uncertainty and internal resource constraints, the role of intrapreneurs—those leaders driving innovation from within organizations—is more critical than ever. At Outthinker Networks, we are fortunate to meet every day with intrapreneurial leaders inside large and complex organizations as they share their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and visions.
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The way humans come together to do work is changing. Technology has made us more interconnected than ever before. Rapid communication and advanced data analysis enable us to gather and perform work together in new ways. This enhanced and expected connectivity has infiltrated all aspects of our lives – the organization is no different.
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Click here to register for Kaihan’s live masterclass on Oct. 26, 2023 Dear Outthinkers, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a leader who enables innovation and growth. In speaking with thought leaders like Joseph Fuller, Elizabeth Altman, and Tiffani Bova, and reviewing our own research at Outthinker Networks, I’ve
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Greetings Outthinkers, It’s been an exciting week for me and the rest of the Outthinker Networks team, and I’m thrilled to share some major updates with you: 1. HBR Article: Is Organizational Hierarchy Getting in the Way of Innovation? Our year-long research study on the emergence of new decentralized organizational models has culminated in a new Harvard Business
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Throughout the year, I have the privilege of engaging in insightful conversations with members of our Outthinker Network of strategy leaders. These remarkable individuals are not only strategists; they are artists (one member helped establish the Dubai art fair), athletes (another was the winner of an Indian gold medal for sports shooting), creators (one left
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In the early 1990s, most large industrial facilities and warehouses in Dallas were hot, literally. They didn’t have air conditioning and left the engineers and workers inside drenched in sweat. Carey Smith, an entrepreneur who had grown up in unairconditioned homes, spotted a business problem he could solve. Throughout his childhood, his family would spray
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