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Thought Leadership

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<div class="name">M-Commerce Comes of Age: Collaborate to Succeed<br ><span class="small-grey">by Michael Knott, John Miles, Edward Boyes</span></div><div class="description">Developed markets are on the cusp of mass adoption of mobile commerce. Many companies now see m-commerce as a strategic priority but few will find themselves in a sustainable, value-accruing position. For most, the only way to win at scale is through collaboration in the form of as-yet-untried partnerships.</div>

<div class="name">Reclaiming Lost Medical Value: Three Models for Healthcare Change<br ><span class="small-grey">by Gary D. Ahlquist, Sanjay B. Saxena, MD, Brett Spencer, MD, Abhishek Gopalka</span> </div><div class="description">Rising costs are forcing the entire U.S. healthcare industry to find ways to unlock and enhance medical value by delivering higher-quality, more affordable care to empowered and engaged consumers. This Perspective outlines three models — population care, healthcare products, and focused transformation — that address the issue of reclaiming lost medical value in a comprehensive and sustainable way.</div>

<div class="name">Profit Migration in the Digital Economy<br ><span class="small-grey">by David Standridge, Christopher Pencavel</span> </div><div class="description">Profits for digital economy players have in the past decade. But the benefits have not been distributed equally. This Perspective analyzes the relative changes in profitability among the six segments of the digital economy’s value chain.</div>

<div class="name">Building an External Innovation Capacity<br ><span class="small-grey">by Matthew Le Merle, Jamie Campbell</span></div><div class="description">This Perspective outlines the tools most likely to form the basis of an external innovation capability, and details the questions that Chief Innovation Officers will need to answer in order to develop a business plan that can be presented to the entire executive team.</div>

<div class="name">The Next Wave of Digitization: Setting Your Direction, Building Your Capabilities<br ><span class="small-grey">by Roman Friedrich, Matthew Le Merle, Michael Peterson, Alex Koster</span></div><div class="description">Digitization is reaching an inflection point. Three powerful forces are driving the shift: consumer demand, the push for new technologies, and the prospect of even greater economic benefits. This Perspective provides guidance to CEOs and their man¬agement teams about the relevance of digitization in their respective industries, and the factors most likely to accelerate or decelerate the digitization phenomenon.</div>

<div class="name">Designing the Transcendent Web: The Power of Web 3.0<br ><span class="small-grey">by Karim Sabbagh, Olaf Acker, Danny Karam, Jad Rahbani</span> </div><div class="description">Web 3.0 — what we call the Transcendent Web — will offer an entirely new level of connectivity, communications, and information on customers, including their attitudes and preferences.</div>

<div class="name">Motivating Behavior Change: Boosting Performance by Mobilizing Pride Builders<br ><span class="small-grey">by Jon Katzenbach, Laird Post, Jonathan Gruber, Aurelie Viriot</span> </div><div class="description">Organizations should follow a rigorous approach to determine who the Pride Builders are, and then build on their insights and capabilities to influence behaviors. Pride Builders can be helpful allies in spreading both motivational behaviors and performance behaviors. In practice, an eight-step tactic we call a performance pilot is often valuable in gaining insights and demonstrating impact.</div>

<div class="name">Are You Ready for a Black Swan? Stress-Testing the Enterprise with Disrupter Analysis<br ><span class="small-grey">by Matthew Le Merle</span></div><div class="description">Too often, the boards and leaders of large companies are unaware of the risks involved in black swan events, unnecessarily exposing their organizations, their shareholders, and themselves to grave consequences. The solution to this problem is disrupter analysis.</div>

<div class="name">Turning “Like” to “Buy”: Social Media Emerges as a Commerce Channel<br ><span class="small-grey">by Matt Anderson, Joe Sims, Jerell Price, Jennifer Brusa</span></div><div class="description">The market for social commerce will explode over the next five years as companies race to establish stores on social networking sites. As this growth surge happens, social commerce will take its place alongside stores, telesales, and the more traditional Web to emerge as a significant sales channel in its own right.</div>

Practice Areas Thought Leadership

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Featured Foresight

Industry Perspectives for 2012

Our industry perspectives, written by the leadership of Booz & Company’s industry practices, examine industry-wide trends, identify key decisions leaders need to make in 2012, and discuss the capabilities that companies need to build in order to be successful in this challenging global economic environment.read more >

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 Global Innovation 1000

Every year since 2005, Booz & Company has conducted the Global Innovation 1000 study, which investigates the relationship between how much companies spend on R&D and their overall financial performance — and every year, we reinforce the conclusion that there is no correlation between the two.read more >

CEO Succession

Every year, Booz & Company takes an intensive look at CEO turnover among the world’s top 2,500 public companies. Our research now reaches back to 2000, giving us over a decade of perspective on the tenure and job functions of these global business leaders.read more >

Organizational DNA

Find out in five minutes if your organization has the right stuff by diagnosing its DNA. Is it Passive-Aggressive, Fits-and-Starts, Outgrown, Overmanaged, Just-in-Time, Military Precision, or Resilient? Once you know, you can keep what’s good, fix what’s wrong, and unlock great performance.read more >

Books

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Booz & Company's Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium — a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.view all books >

Multimedia

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