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Open Strategy

What can organizations gain from greater transparency?

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Openness in Practice

The 5P framework translates academic insights on open strategy into concrete managerial guideposts

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Exposing Emotional Blind Spots

Five design principles to help managers anticipate and manage emotional dynamics in open processes


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When Buy-In Creates Gridlock

Improving inclusion can cultivate more partication, at the risk of paralysis

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The 5P framework—purpose, parameters, people, processing, and proof—offers managers practical recommendations for designing and managing open strategy processes.

Emotional architecture is the deliberate design of processes that can help anticipate and manage emotional dynamics associated with greater transparency.

Firms face an underlying tension in open strategy—inclusion creates buy-in but risks paralysis, while rapid decision-making enables execution but triggers resistance.


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Why Participation Fades

A practical guide to diagnosing and transforming invitations into sustained, valuable engagement

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Don't Assume Transparency Works

Employees must be actively engaged in order to promote better strategic outcomes

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Staging a Strategy Intervention

Many participatory initiatives fail to change how work actually gets done

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Before You Give AI Agents More Control

Executives should adopt a mindset of systems thinking when approaching Agentic AI management

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When Every Option Looks Right

Analytical abundance afforded by artificial intelligence can make strategy harder

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Three Winning AI Strategies

AI competition is not a winner-take-all race

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Preventing Innovation Portfolio Drift

How innovation portfolios are assembled may matter more than weak strategy or creativity



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Agentic AI

The End of the Attention Economy and the "Zero-Click" Threat

Managing the shift from an attention economy to an AI-mediated trust economy

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Quantum: Are You Ready For It?

Six steps to capture value today and prepare for what’s ahead


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Narrowing the AI Gap

Treat the global AI race as a strategic playbook for building organizational capability


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How to Measure Corporate Social Responsibility Holistically

A more comprehensive approach to measuring CSR and social impact

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Why GPT-6 May Not Save OpenAI

Applying the Profiting from Innovation (PFI) framework to the rapidly evolving AI economy

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AI Still Needs Accountable Ownership

The risk is not outsourcing work to AI, but outsourcing the capability required to own the output


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AI and the Industrialization of Expertise

What are the consequences of widening access to capabilities previously constrained by cost and availability?


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Blind Overseers: Does AI Erode Human Judgment?

Proper oversight requires both evaluative judgment and generative judgment



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Reimagining the Customer Journey

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