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Interviews Interview with Stuart Crainer – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Stuart Crainer provides an insightful look into how Shimizu, one of Japan's largest construction companies, has undergone a transformative cultural shift toward sustainable innovation.
Interviews Interview with Hamilton Mann – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Mann discusses the importance of sustainability in light of new generations' awareness and concern for planet resources.
Interviews Interview with Alice Bolton – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Bolton discusses the importance of sustainability across an entire organization rather than just in a specialized team.
Interviews Interview with Debbie Summerville – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Summerville emphasizes the importance of sustainable innovation as a continuous process rather than a sporadic event.
Interviews Interview with Caroline Sauvé – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Sauvé discusses the importance of sustainable innovation and its multifaceted approach beyond satisfying just customers and shareholders.
Interviews Interview with Christoph Hirnle – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Hirnle discusses the importance of sustainable innovation, emphasizing that it requires a company to focus on environmental impact and ensure the long-term stability and well-being of its expert workforce.
Reports Driving Sustainability Strategy Home
Sustainability has become a critical objective for most companies, increasingly influencing their overall business strategy, culture, and ways of working. We surveyed over 500 executives worldwide to understand what distinguishes leading...
Reports The Chief Transformation Officer
In this report, Project Management Institute (PMI) and Accenture examine how the individuals who take on this emerging role drive effective enterprise transformation and ultimately build a company-wide “changing capability.” Our...
Reports Blockchain-Driven Transformation
With digital assets, smart contracts, and shared distributed ledgers, blockchain tech is a catalyst for enterprise transformation.
Reports Strategy@Work 2020 Executive Summary
The global pandemic has changed the world map, once more. It has accentuated the gaps between developed and emerging economies—and ignited a conversation around the next chapter of globalization. Get the executive summary of Brightline...
Reports How to lead through uncharted times – TED2020 Insights
Whether you are in business or government, at a university or nonprofit, leading through a time of transformation is always a challenge — one where old metrics for decision-making no longer work.
Reports What are the Skills and Functions Required of the CSO to Implement Strategy in Large Organizations?
We see the birth of the Chief Strategic Officer (CSO) position within the governance of large corporations, in a transfer process of responsibility for strategy execution to a specific role in an organization’s top management teams.
Books Driving Sustainable Innovation
The book offers a thought-provoking yet highly applicable resource for you and your organization to make sense of the future. It brings together a powerful collection of executives, thought leaders, practitioners, and researchers from...
Books The Digital Transformation Playbook
Second edition – An indispensable resource for you and your organization as you embark on the exciting and challenging journey of digital transformation
Books Building Resilient Organizations
In our tumultuous times, understanding and achieving resilience have never been more important. Some organizations have resilience in their DNA. They possess the agility of mind, culture, and organization to survive and thrive no matter...
Books Perpetual Transformation
Transformation is no longer a short-lived initiative. It is not a program. It is not linear. Instead, the world’s leading organizations now embrace transformation as a challenging, stretching, exciting and essential constant in their...
Books Transforming Beyond the Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us how fragile our societies, businesses, and our lives are. It turned things upside down in a matter of weeks.
Books The Transformation Playbook
Transformation is not a neat theory, but a human imperative in our fast-changing times. Transformation has never been more important and the human side of transformation is now, at long last, being fully appreciated.
Webinars Driving Sustainability Strategy Home | Webinar
It’s never been more crucial for today’s executive leaders to create business strategies that center sustainability and move organizations forward. Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, sponsored by Brightline, surveyed 548 members...
Webinars Teamwork Innovation: How to build teams that can thrive post-pandemic
Stefano Mastrogiacomo and Alex Osterwalder share key lessons from working with teams during the pandemic.
Webinars 3 Steps to Enhance your Enterprise's Learning with Emerging Technologies
How can you accelerate learning in your organization at a time when technology changes so rapidly?
Webinars Get Unstuck, Move Ahead and Transform with Matt Marsh
Successful, yet feeling stuck? Surprisingly, research shows it's often successful organizations that find it the hardest to change and transform. Business recovery, reinvention, and rejuvenation is demanding. And firms do get stuck along...
Webinars 3 Ways of Empowering Your People to Transform
In these unprecedented times, the role of leadership has undergone a fundamental shift. How can leaders have empathetic and authentic conversations?
Webinars How To Transform Your Organization Into An Innovation Engine
Is your organization able to innovate and create new growth in a repeatable way? Do your innovators have to hide and protect their ideas in case they are killed by the corporate machine?
Articles Transformation Ignition Points
Making sense of transformation — and the idea of perpetual transformation — is undoubtedly a demanding task. But, while each situation in an organization feels very different, the reality is that there are shared experiences, fears and...
Articles Transformation is personal
It is easy to say how important people are, but it is often difficult to translate the recognition of this importance into implementation. A change of behaviour or a change of outlook by one individual in an organisation is the cellular...
Articles Transforming traditional businesses doesn’t have to be an elusive goal
Firms need to develop an appetite for innovation, leverage knowledge about customers, and adopt agile ways of working.
Articles Digital transformation in the wake of a crisis: focus on people
Crises differ in character, scale, and scope, but some aspects are true no matter the organisation, industry, or geography.
Articles When tides turn, it’s time to transform
Every organization needs to chart its course. Change can be hard—even more so if your employees don’t have a clear direction. Start any transformation by defining your vision and how it impacts your employees and customers.
Articles 5 essential strategic steps to transform your organization
Leaders must approach organizational change with an integrated perspective. These five takeaways, which emerged from our survey of more than 1,000 business leaders, will set your organization on the right path.
Case Studies Reykjavik Energy Group
Near two-thirds of Iceland’s population depends on Reykjavik Energy Group (REG) to provide electricity, geothermal water for heating and cold water for consumption and firefighting as well as wastewater systems and fiber-optic network.
Case Studies Built For Speed: How Swift Strategy Execution is Improving the Lives of UAE Citizens
UAE Vision 2021 is an initiative that aims to make the United Arab Emirates (UAE) a world-leading country. Here are some of the principles that helped them successfully complete 40+ high-priority challenges under a 100-day deadline.
Case Studies Organizational Transformation: How Steelcase Developed a Strategy for Growth in a Changing Workplace
Steelcase made its mark as an internationally recognized name in office furnishings with the introduction of Victor—a fireproof steel waste basket designed to reduce fires, which are often caused by ashes in wicker wastebaskets. More than...
Case Studies A (Brilliant) case study: How do you turn a big, bold, potentially game-changing idea into a reality?
InSTEDD is a small nonprofit founded with an ambitious vision: to create a global alarm system for pandemics. Twelve years in, it’s driving toward its mission — by instinctively following Brightline’s 10 Guiding Principles.
Case Studies Food for Thought: How a Century-old Agro-giant Re-imagined its Business Strategy
Faced with mounting global competition, smaller profit margins and a more tech-savvy consumer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) needed to find other ways of growing beyond geographic expansion. But maneuvering a century-old global commodities...
Case Studies International Charity Sets Its Sights On Africa With Disease-Eliminating Strategy
For decades, trachoma ranked as the most important cause of blindness in the West African country of Ghana. Here’s a look at the strategy Sightsavers, an international NGO, executed to eliminate a disease in Ghana that has plagued...
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Infographics [Infographic] Blockchain in Global Trade
This infographic explores how blockchain can improve global trade for all stakeholders—banks and financiers, corporations, logistics companies, regulatory bodies, insurance providers, and customs authorities—and lays out a road map for...
Infographics Engaged Leaders Make Stronger Companies
What does it mean to be a role model in a leading organization? To answer that question, we can look to strategy implementation leaders—organizations that can adapt to new or unexpected markets, move ahead of their competition, and...
Infographics Timing is money
The four dilemmas of timing when to implement a business strategy. Although we have become quite savvy about knowing whether an innovative idea is disruptive, we don't really have tools for knowing when such disruption should happen, and...
Infographics Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops for Strategy Design and Delivery
Changes in competitor and customer demands frequently undermine strategy delivery… so most companies monitor key customer and competitor trends likely to affect strategy. However, monitoring is not enough, see why. Based on a recent...
Infographics Bridging the Strategy Design-Delivery Gap: What the Leaders are Doing
The benefits of bridging the gap between strategy design and delivery are unmistakable. A recent Economist Intelligence Unit survey finds that only 10% of respondents consistently achieve those benefits. See what sets these Leaders apart.
Infographics Designing and Delivering a Strategy that Works: Managing the Two Faces of Culture
Organisational culture is complex and can powerfully help, or hurt, companies as they shepherd strategy from design to delivery. A survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit highlights some ways companies can meet the urgent mandate to...
Workbooks Surprise, Surprise! A workbook for finding the keys to resilience in your strategic initiatives
This workbook helps you to explore why your organization is surprised in the first place, and how you can handle your surprises more effectively.
Workbooks The Strategy Implementer Workbook
This workbook presents a practical guidance for running executive-to-shop-floor-level workshops for mastering two key challenges in strategy implementation: Uncertainty and People Impact. It helps you by differentiating your strategy work...
Videos Building Resilient Organizations, a new PMI | Brightline & Thinkers50 book.
With contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world, Building Resilient Organizations will enable you and your organization further to develop resilience as a muscle in your organization.
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Videos Transform or Reset? The Future of Education [Strategy@Work 2020]
How can we hit reset the higher educational model? Three visionary educationists suggest how we can reframe the future of education.
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Videos How can we advance women leaders in workplace? [Strategy@Work 2020]
How can leaders drive a culture that celebrates diversity, equity and includes different opinions?
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Videos How social impact and purpose are the new pillars for transforming your company [Strategy@Work 2020]
Deepa Prahalad, Efosa Ojomo & Carolina Da Costa discuss how serving social impact and purpose can transform your company for good.
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Videos Transformation on the Frontlines of COVID-19: A Perspective from Healthcare [Strategy@Work 2020]
This panel during the Strategy@Work 2020 Conference discussed the massive transformation at the frontlines around the healthcare sector.
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Videos How can leaders engage their people fully? A conversation with Michelle Stacy and Whitney Johnson [Strategy@Work 2020]
Only people can generate growth and innovate yet employees are the most undervalued resources.