Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind - Couverture rigide

Schmitt, Bernd H

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ISBN 10 : 1422103218 ISBN 13 : 9781422103210

Editeur : Harvard Business Review Press, 2007

Synopsis

Business leaders need bold strategies to stay relevant and win. In "Big Think Strategy", Schmitt shows how to bring bold thinking into your business by sourcing big ideas and executing them creatively. With the tools in this book, any leader can overcome institutionalized 'small think' - the inertia, the narrow-mindedness, and the aversion to risk that block true innovation. Your reward? Big, bold, and decidedly doable strategies that excite your employees and leave your rivals scrambling. Drawing on years of advising corporate leaders on creativity and strategy development, Schmitt explains how to infuse fresh thinking into the planning process. Through his commentary on the Trojan War, the film "Fitzcarraldo", and the composer Gustav Mahler, Schmitt uncovers the essence of bold leadership and the levers of revolutionary change.Abundant examples from Apple, Whole Foods, MySpace, IBM, General Electric, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to name a few, show 'big think strategy' in action. Tested by daring executives in a diverse range of industries, the practical ideas and tools in this book will help you leverage bold ideas in your strategic planning and position your firm uniquely for lasting market relevance and success.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Business leaders need bold strategies to stay relevant and win. Traditional approaches to strategic planning based on safe, low-risk methods that produce predictable results do not equip businesses with the tools necessary for creating lasting impact. Companies must be willing to open themselves up to approaching strategy from a creative perspective. To create several systematic methodologies for creative problem solving in the development and execution of corporate strategy, Dr. Bernd H. Schmitt utilizes research in psychology and marketing and his experiences in music, fashion, telecom, financial services, and travel . He reveals how to bring bold thinking into your business by sourcing big ideas and executing them creatively.

Based on Schmitt's award-winning "Corporate Creativity" course at Columbia Business School 's Executive MBS program, Big Think Strategy fulfills the need for a model of the creative strategic process that positions the firm uniquely for success.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bernd H. Schmitt is Co-founder and CEO of The EX Group and is the Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School in New York. He is a driving force behind the concept of customer experiential marketing. Schmitt, who also directs Columbia's Center on Global Brand Leadership, has published six books on the subject, three of them co-authored, with translations in sixteen languages. Schmitt counts among his clients Sony, IBM and Cathay Pacific, and is regularly interviewed on international television networks including the BBC, CNN and CNBC. His previous books, which include Customer Experience Management (Wiley), There's No Business That's Not Show Business (New Press), Build Your Own Garage, Marketing Aesthetics, and Experiential Marketing (Free Press), have been translated into thirteen languages.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard Business Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1422103218
• ISBN 13: 9781422103210
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 177