John Hagel III
Your participants are becoming more demanding – their time is in ever shorter supply and they want a tangible return on their attention. I speak on a broad range of topics regarding the long-term changes in the global economy, emerging business opportunities and the pragmatic pathways that large, existing institutions can pursue to evolve in ways that will turn pressure into opportunity.
I have spoken at a broad range of prominent business gatherings, including the World Economic Forum Davos Annual Meeting, TED, Fortune Brainstorm, South by Southwest, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Consumer Electronics Show and Techonomy (see below for more details). I also speak often at leadership gatherings hosted by prominent companies around the world.
Your participants are becoming more demanding – their time is in ever shorter supply and they want a tangible return on their attention. I speak on a broad range of topics regarding the long-term changes in the global economy, emerging business opportunities and the pragmatic pathways that large, existing institutions can pursue to evolve in ways that will turn pressure into opportunity.
I have spoken at a broad range of prominent business gatherings, including the World Economic Forum Davos Annual Meeting, TED, Fortune Brainstorm, South by Southwest, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Consumer Electronics Show and Techonomy (see below for more details). I also speak often at leadership gatherings hosted by prominent companies around the world.
Cutting Costs: Turning a Necessity into an Opportunity
All businesses are being forced to cut operating costs just to stay in business. Most companies understandably approach this task with dread and a defensive mindset. The result? Cost reductions occur in painful increments, with each slice presented as the last, only to lead to the next slice. I make the case that management should approach cost reduction as an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the business, rather than trying to do the same thing with fewer resources. Instead of simply...
Focus on Fundamentals, not Fads
The Big Shift
I share the perspectives that we have developed on the long-term forces that are fundamentally re-shaping our global economy and the implications in terms of how all institutions will need to adapt to this every different environment.
Overcoming the Psychology of Mounting Performance Pressure
The forces that are re-shaping our global economy are creating mounting performance pressure for all of us - no one is immune. In times of mounting pressure, we as human beings have natural psychological reactions that are understandable yet can become very dysfunctional. By understanding the psychology of pressure, we can more effectively devise approaches that can help to turn mounting pressure into expanding opportunity.
Pursuing the Right Innovation Agenda
Companies are beginning to realize that cost-cutting delivers diminishing returns. Executives are reassessing their innovation needs. Traditional forms of innovation - product innovation and managerial innovation are necessary but not sufficient. Growing competitive pressures require a more aggressive institutional innovation across multiple levels of business activity. In the process, the boundaries and even the role of the firm will be redefined. By pursuing this institutional...
Transforming our Approach to Transformation
All large institutions will need to transform themselves in order to respond effectively to the long-term forces reshaping the global economy. The traditional "big bang, top down" approaches to transformation invariably run into the immune system and antibodies that work to subvert change in all existing institutions. I explore an alternative approach - scaling the edge - that is becoming much more feasible given the evolution of the global economy and that is much less likely to encounter...
