Innovation
Differentiate yourself in saturated markets
On saturated markets, competitors generally fight on commercial presence and price. Yet, there are other ways for businesses to differentiate themselves. How can you play on services and positioning to gain a competitive edge?
Revitalize your strategy
To stay afloat facing accelerating competitive shifts, businesses must regularly regenerate their strategies. But how can they reinvent themselves while so many forces support organizational continuity?
Combine economic and social performance
In the current economic crisis, social responsibility or environmental performance issues are often relegated to the background. How can businesses turn CSR into a source of strategic innovation and creation of economic value?
Cultivate and maintain your network
Networks can be a real performance driver if they are carefully cultivated and maintained. Building an effective network hence requires methodical efforts that anyone can undertake.
Harness the power of habit to manage change successfully
Many change projects fail because people return to their former behavioral patterns. Yet this is not inevitable: how can one use habit as a supportive—rather than obstructive—change management driver?
Take action despite uncertainty
The duration and extent of the economic crisis makes it difficult for business to know where to turn and what to do. Indeed, how do you find the right balance between prudence and audacity to continue moving forward?
Stimulate creativity in the field
How to stimulate the creativity of your employees? In addition to establishing sophisticated systems to collect ideas, companies would do well to adapt management practices accordingly.
The value of small ideas
Capitalize on the ideas of every employee. How to implement an idea management system that serves as a real performance driver?
Lateral thinking and marketing innovation
How to introduce more creativity into innovation and invent new markets? Lateral thinking is a way to move away from the beaten path.