Strategy & Leadership: Volume 41 Issue 3

Three proven rules: discovering how exceptional companies think

Michael E. Raynor, Mumtaz Ahmed

After many years of researching data for thousands of companies the authors identified a population of 377 exceptional companies in two categories: 199 Miracle Workers, or the…

Effectiveness at the top – what makes the difference and why?

Brian Leavy

This article sets out to examine what is different about top leadership and what is required beyond proven professional competence to be highly effective at this level.

Social business: an opportunity to transform work and create value

Peter J. Korsten, Eric Lesser, James W. Cortada

This is a report on an IBM Institute for Business Value study, based on responses from more than 1,100 individuals and interviews with more than two dozen executives from leading…

Boeing's offshoring woes: seven lessons every CEO must learn

Stephen Denning

The author's research using published internal reports and news reports suggests that some of Boeing problems with its innovative 787 Dreamliner aircraft are symptoms of a deeper…

What went wrong at Boeing

Stephen Denning

At the beginning of 2013, Boing's revolutionary 787 airliner suffered a host of problems and then the fleet was grounded because of a fires caused when lithium‐ion batteries…

A continuous‐learning process that updates and enhances planning scenarios

Gerald Harris

This paper aims to describe how, during the period after the scenarios have been sketched out but before the company leadership reaches the strategy‐development or…

Editor’s letter

Robert M. Randall

Strategy in the media

Craig Henry

The content management systems opportunity – new strategic marketing capabilities

Kenneth Alan Grossberg

Quick takes

Catherine Gorrell