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The 2011 Global Innovation 1000: Why Culture is Key
In past editions of the Global Innovation 1000, we found that companies focused on developing cutting-edge products and services fall under one of three fundamental innovation strategy models: Need Seekers, Market Readers, and Tech Drivers. This year, our seventh annual study of the world’s 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders focuses on the link between the three strategy models, culture, and organization—and their effect on companies’ alignment to innovation objectives and the impact on financial performance. The key finding: culture is key to innovation success, and its impact on performance is measurable.read more >

Booz & Company at the World Economic Forum 2012
Chairman Joe Saddi, CEO Shumeet Banerji, and a group of Booz & Company partners — including DeAnne Aguirre, Dr. Klaus-Peter Gushurst, and Per-Ola Karlsson — attended the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25-29, 2012. They were active in a number of panels and other events surrounding the theme of this year's event, The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models.read more >

The Secrets to Strategy Execution: The Idea in Practice
How can a company execute its strategy more effectively without making costly, disruptive changes to its organizational structure? Originally published in The Harvard Business Review, this "Idea in Practice" piece uses the story of a highly successful global company to illustrate how to uncover serious obstacles preventing your company from meeting its goals.read more >

Cloud Computing: An Information Security Perspective
Executives contemplating moving critical data to the cloud continue to worry about the security of their data and the reliability of the technology. Yet the inherent attractiveness of the technology remains strong. The risks of maintaining data in the cloud can be mitigated, we believe, by systematically analysing the risks involved in moving different kinds of data into the cloud, and then matching the data with the cloud technology best suited to the data's security requirements.download (334kb, PDF) >

Capabilities-Driven Strategy
The power of coherence: A company's right to win in any market depends not just on external market positioning, and not just on internal capabilities — but on a coherent strategy that aligns them at every level.read more >

The Essential Advantage
In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Booz & Company partners Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi argue that many companies need to reset the way they develop strategy and show how adopting a capabilities-driven strategy that starts inside the company, with what it already does best, can lead to a measurable performance premium in terms of higher EBIT, ROI, and shareholder return.read more >