Few organizations have escaped the need for major change in the past decade, as new technologies and global crises have reshaped entire industries. However, the fact that change has become more ...

Access to technology enables growth for consumers and businesses. And these days, the fortunes of many tech companies rely heavily on their performance in bottom-of-the-pyramid markets. China’s Xiaomi ...

It has become commonplace to argue that the combination of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and the conflict in Iraq has forced business strategists to make geopolitical ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of strategy+business. Leaders today are well aware that their organization’s culture is an asset that must be managed with purpose and care.

To raise your own customer analytics ability, start by thoroughly defining your market and customers. Deepen your knowledge by applying techniques such as mapping the customer journey. Seek out data ...

The interlinked and mutually reinforcing attributes required to succeed in uncertainty are clear. Whether the topic is strategy or workforce, operations or deals, tax and regulation or finance, the ...

The current wave of disruption is different. Today's digital technologies involve unprecedented breadth and scale — comparable to the introduction of commercial electric power in the early 20th ...

In an era of celebrity chefs and chains, few restaurateurs have achieved their fame, fortune, or scale the way Danny Meyer has done it. USC was profitable in its first year. By the end of its second, ...

Almost every business today faces major strategic challenges. The path to creating value is seldom clear. In an ongoing global survey of senior executives conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy ...

The Capital One Financial Corporation, which since its founding in 1994 has grown into a $16 billion consumer finance powerhouse, demonstrates all three elements of strategizing dynamically. It has a ...

It was Confucius who said that “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I’m going to explain why achieving simplicity matters, and how organizing strategy around the number six ...

Author profiles: DeAnne Aguirre is a senior partner with Strategy& based in San Diego. She is the co-leader of the firm’s global Katzenbach Center and an expert in culture, leadership, talent ...