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December 10, 2019 The Transformer's Dilemma By Karolin Frankenberger, Hannah Mayer, Andreas Reiter, Markus Schmidt Interviews with top executives reveal how to manage a new digital business alongside your core offering.

Superstar Firms Are Running Away with the Global Economy by Matej Bajgar, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo, Luca Marcolin, Jonathan Timmis In two new studies, researchers find signs of a weakening competitive environment worldwide. The Delicate Balance of Making an Ecosystem Strategy Work by Michael G. Jacobides Are you focused on what customers need? How Marketers Can Overcome Short-Termism by Christine Moorman, Lauren Kirby According to a new survey, CMOs want to spend more time preparing for the future. Create an Ethics Committee to Keep Your AI Initiative in Check by Steven Tiell It's about more than just mitigating bias.

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FEATURED PRODUCT The Experience Economy, With a New Preface by the Authors: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore Welcome to the Experience Economy, where businesses must form unique connections in order to secure their customers’ affections — and ensure their own economic vitality. Filled with detailed examples and actionable advice, The Experience Economy helps companies create personal, dramatic, and even transformative experiences, offering the script from which managers can generate value in ways aligned with a strong customer-centric strategy. Now with a brand-new preface, Pine and Gilmore make an even stronger case for experiences as the critical link between a company and its customers in an increasingly distractible and time-starved world. $32.00 Buy Now

FEATURED PRODUCT Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (Advance Edition) Harvard Business Review, Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, Peter Cappelli, Phil Simon If you think agile is just for project managers and innovation teams, think again. Agile is here to stay and is poised to move beyond IT and project management teams into other business units, even HR. If you’re still using top-down planning across your organization, your company will fall to competitors that are nimbler than you. Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand today’s most essential thinking on the latest agile practices, so your company can develop offerings faster, react to fluctuations in the market, and ensure your strategy and people can adapt at a moment’s notice. $22.95 Buy Now

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