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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.

Interviews Interview with Dan Toma – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Dan Toma delves into the concept of sustainable innovation. He emphasizes that sustainable innovation requires considering a broader range of stakeholders, including the environment and society, beyond the immediate organizational...

Interviews Interview with Giusi Meloni – Driving Sustainable Innovation
Meloni explores the dynamic interplay between sustainability and innovation. She emphasizes that while sustainability focuses on preserving what exists, innovation inherently involves change.

Reports Strategic Transformation Research
In this report, we examine the correlation between strategy implementation success and transformation effectiveness and speed. We also dig into factors such as adaptability, the adoption of formalized processes, and how frameworks are...

Reports Strategic Transformation Research – Appendix
This appendix is a complementary resource to “Strategic Transformation: Mastering Strategy Implementation in Transformative Times,” research report.

Reports Enabling Enterprise Transformation with Blockchain
How Canada’s largest digital payments company is using blockchain to seize new market opportunities in the energy and health care sectors.

Reports Distributed Power
In this research, energy expert and innovator Lawrence Orsini shares his work on blockchain applications that will transform global energy grids at local, national, and international levels.

Reports Distributed Artificial Intelligence
This research examines the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies.

Reports The Brightline Transformation Compass
Project Management Institute, together with Behnam Tabrizi, renowned expert in Transformation.

Books Characterizing the Gap Between Strategy and Implementation
The last century has witnessed a rapid increase in global population, mobility, urbanization, and commerce. What should be our response to this age of connected complexity as practitioners, thought leaders, and researchers? These times push...

Books The Chief Strategy Officer Playbook
In today’s dynamic business environment, creating and implementing great strategies requires talent, resources and the right practices and tools. The book showcases a unique and compelling collection of valuable experiences, research,...

Books 战略制胜 | Strategy@Work: From design to delivery
Book: Working with our partners at Thinkers50, The Brightline Initiative have created Strategy@Work. It showcases some of the very best thinkers in the field of strategy and beyond. We hope that it acts as a catalyst for readers to get...

Books Strategy@Work: From design to delivery
Distilled to three words it is: Getting things done. Strategy@Work showcases some of the very best thinkers in the field of strategy and beyond. We hope that it acts as a catalyst for readers to get things done.

Webinars How can Leaders Transform their Organizations in Crisis
How can leaders transform their organizations in times of crisis? Any event that can challenge the survival of your organization can result in a productivity change that lasts.

Webinars People-Centered Transformation; How to Put People First
In these uncertain times, the failure rate in implementing organizational change initiatives is too high and too costly to be sustained. How can your organization survive and thrive in today’s complex context?

Webinars What are the 3 Essentials of Transforming Your Organization?
Two-time TEDx speaker, author and transformation expert, Ron Carruci looks at how to design transformational change systemically.

Webinars What are the 4 Strategic Tasks in Transformation
What are the tasks of the CEO, in an age when the interns know more than formal leaders? Dr. Josef Oehmen shares his key insights on the 4 strategic tasks that define the success of transformations.

Webinars How can Leaders Execute a People-First Transformation?
In this Brightline webinar delivered by Claudio Garcia, former EVP, Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), you can learn his expert views on how to execute a "People-first" strategy for transformation.

Articles Blocked pipeline: the career trajectory of women in strategy leadership
A study in Brazil shows how management consulting's gender gap affects the leadership ranks in strategy.

Articles Changing the Way We Change
Removing the resistive forces to change by reducing learning anxiety is the key to unlocking the discretionary effort of your people to maintain the viability and vibrancy of your business.

Articles People-centred transformation is an urgent priority for a fast-changing world
Organizations cannot change unless their people change, and most transformation efforts fail because organizations over-emphasize the tangible side of change and under-emphasize the emotional one.

Articles Catalyse an Adaptive Leadership System
Organizations are disappearing at an increasingly alarming rate. This mass extinction is happening because companies can’t evolve quickly enough to keep up with the accelerating rate of change. If organizations can’t adapt they die.

Articles The Disengagement Epidemic: Can Ona Rescue Us?
A tool called Organization Network Analysis (ONA) allows companies to uncover their hidden Zappers—those who create energy—and connect them together into networks that fuel discretionary effort.

Articles Enabling Organizational “Response-Ability” to Change
Successful organizational transformation requires an empathic, people-centered approach to change that nurtures a culture of aspiration, alignment, autonomy, and accountability.

Case Studies An Agile Blueprint For Effective Strategy Execution At ING Group
Today’s banking customers are more demanding than ever. With the proliferation of smartphones and customer-friendly apps, many have grown to expect omni-channel experiences, personalized services and real-time interactions from their...

Case Studies Save The Children’s Global Strategy
For decades, Save the Children functioned as a loosely connected association with 29 member organizations operating in 120 countries. That approach helped the international non-governmental organization promote children’s rights and...

Case Studies NASA’s Down-To-Earth Principles Deliver Positive Strategic Outcomes
Not every organization is preparing for future trips to Mars or searching for planets well beyond our solar system. But while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pursues these and additional otherworldly ambitions, its...

Case Studies How a Focus on Culture, Talent, Metrics and Technology Drives the American Red Cross’s Strategy
Every year, the American Red Cross responds to an average of 64,000 disasters, provides 40% of the country’s blood supply, trains nearly 5.9 million people in first aid and CPR, and offers more than 110,000 military families emergency...

Case Studies How Saudi Telecom Is Reinventing Itself Through Smart Strategy Delivery
Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications industry is in the midst of a seismic shift. Saudi Telecom (STC) has responded to this changing climate with bold moves, including a new business strategy that focuses on growth in several key areas and...
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Videos What is the Next Frontier in Space Exploration [Strategy@Work 2020]
Is there are renewed dynamism for space exploration? There is enhanced international participation, more engagement from private industry, and excitement based upon a new leadership vision.
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Videos Transforming for Sustainability: Tom Szaky in conversation with Sunil Prashara [Strategy@Work 2020]
How can leaders transform their organizations that proactively address social causes in a meaningful and impactful way?
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Videos How is COVID-19 accelerating globalization [Strategy@Work 2020]
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed glaring gaps between the developed and developing economies. How will the power equation change the world?
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Videos Leading Rapid Organizational Transformations Successfully [Strategy@Work 2020]
Leading organizational transformation takes enormous courage and commitment. Truly engaged leadership involves solving challenges and creating environments in which breakthroughs with lasting results occur.

Videos How are leaders adapting and transforming? Top insights from Brightline StrategyAtWork 2020
Given our current transformative times, how are leaders succeeding in adapting and innovating? At the 2020 Strategy@Work conference, 330 global senior leaders across industry meet and discuss.

Videos How can we transform higher education?
How can higher education adjust the traditional model to the ever-changing needs of the learners?