Strategy & Leadership: Volume 36 Issue 6

Value opportunity webs: a new concept for anticipating potential marketplace breakthroughs

Liam Fahey, V.K. Narayanan

The paper aims to examine how to devise ways to capture data in and around the marketplace that generates indicators of emerging and potential marketplace change which could lead…

C.K. Prahalad heralds a new era of innovation

Robert J. Allio

This interview of C.K. Prahalad, one of the world's leading strategic thinkers, aims to offer corporate leaders a practical look at the radical concepts presented in his The New…

Assessing the risk of M&A: Bruner's Disaster Framework applied to Berkshire Hathaway's Gen Re Acquisition

Joseph Calandro

This paper aims to acquaint managers with a little known mergers and acquisitions (M&A) diagnostic tool that made its debut in the book Deals from Hell – M&A Lessons that Rise…

The anticipatory leader: futurist, strategist and integrator

Anika Savage, Michael Sales

The paper seeks to show that in today's turbulent business environment, the advantage goes to organizations whose leaders are continually scanning the external environment…

Globality: challenger companies are radically redefining the competitive landscape

Harold L. Sirkin, James W. Hemerling, Arindam K. Bhattacharya

The paper aims to herald a new phase of worldwide trade and economic development which the authors call “globality.” Increasingly, companies from every part of the world will be…

The new demography of the 21st century: part 1 – the birthrate surprise

Martin Walker

The paper aims to reveal a surprising global drama now unfolding across the world: unpredicted demographic trends portend unexpected social transformations.

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams

Strategy in the media

Craig Henry

Prahalad’s new value creation formula: N=1, R=G

Brian Leavy

Editor’s letter

Robert M. Randall

Quick takes

Catherine Gorrell