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Bring the Outside In: Increasing True Urgency by Winning Hearts and Minds
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4888BC-ELeadership and People ManagementOrganizations of any size or age tend to be too internally oriented. The disconnect between what insiders see, feel, and think, on the one hand, and external opportunities and hazards, on the other, can be astonishing. This inside-outside gap always reduces an organization's sense of urgency, and must be diminished if organizations hope to implement change successfully. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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Keep Urgency Up: Creating a Culture that is Conducive to Continuous Change
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4892BC-ELeadership and People ManagementAn organization that can sustain a high sense of urgency over time has the potential to become a high-performance machine, where results go from good to great and beyond. But sustaining urgency over time requires that it not only be created, and created well, but that it be re-created again and again, becoming firmly ingrained in an organization's culture. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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LeapFive Technology Co. Ltd.: RISC in the Chip Supply Chain
Hugh Thomas; Shilu TongCase IVEY-W33712-EService and Operations Management, StrategyAglaia Kong, the founder and chief executive officer of Guangdong LeapFive Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese fabless chip design start-up, is facing a broken supply chain, with issues running from electronic design automation and core internet protocol through to fabrication, packaging, and testing in bringing up her Internet of things chip sets for industrial applications. Using fifth-generation open-source reduced instruction set computing instruc...Starting at €8.20
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ofo: Innovation and the Little Yellow Bicycle
Hugh Thomas; Mingkang LiuCase IVEY-9B19M062-EStrategyOfo (stylized “ofo”), a Beijing-based bicycle-sharing company, had grown bicycle sharing from nothing into a dockless mobile application (app) service industry with over 120 million monthly active users sharing 30 million bicycles in cities across China and around the world. Founded by five bicycle enthusiasts in 2014, its dockless system used a smartphone application to unlock and locate nearby bicycles, charging an hourly rate for use. Although...Starting at €8.20
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Incubation and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Hugh Thomas; Chi Fai Chan; Howard Lam; Icy Fong Lai NgaiCase IVEY-9B19A038-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe chief executive officer (CEO) of the government-owned Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is setting the marketing policy for the incubation program at HKSTP, Hong Kong’s leading incubator of high-technology companies. Seeing marketing as a driving force to convey the strategy of HKSTP, the CEO must analyze the key services through which HKSTP can increase an incubatee’s chances of success; analyze the advantages and di...Starting at €8.20
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Increasing True Urgency: One Strategy and Four Tactics
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4887BC-ELeadership and People ManagementUnderlying the urgent behavior that makes organizations succeed in a turbulent world is not only a set of thoughts-there must also be a set of feelings, a compulsive desire to move, and win, now. This chapter outlines several tactics for increasing urgency and winning the hearts, along with the minds, of those involved in a change effort. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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It All Starts with a Sense of Urgency: Laying the Groundwork for Change
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4831BC-ELeadership and People ManagementComplacency is a serious problem, for organizations, nations, and individuals, yet we underestimate its power and its prevalence. In a fast-moving and changing world, contentment with the status quo can create disaster. This chapter describes why real urgency is an essential asset that must be created and recreated, and discusses the consequences of insufficient urgency. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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Find Opportunity in Crises: Increasing True Urgency by Winning Hearts and Minds
Kotter, John P.Book Chapter HBS-4890BC-ELeadership and People ManagementCrises are not necessarily bad and may, under certain conditions, actually be required to succeed in an increasingly changing world. Even people who are solidly content with the status quo will begin to act differently if a fire starts on the floor beneath their feet. With fire spreading around them, everyone moves, the status quo is eliminated, and a new beginning is possible. This chapter is excerpted from "A Sense of Urgency."Starting at €8.20
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SenseTime Global IPO: Strategic Reaction to American Attack
Pong Yuen Howard Lam; Hugh ThomasCase IVEY-W33293-EFinance, MarketingHong Kong-headquartered SenseTime Group Inc. (SenseTime) was founded in 2014 to commercialize artificial intelligence (AI) and was a global leader in deep-learning AI, with applications in Smart Business (facial recognition), Smart City (property damage and theft detection), Smart Life (interacting with the Internet of Things to improve consumer experience), and Smart Auto (autonomous driving). December 10, 2021, was supposed to be the date for s...Starting at €8.20
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Asia Pulp & Paper: Implementing the Forest Conservation Policy
Hugh Thomas; Shige Makino; Ka Wai Boby ShiuCase IVEY-9B16M129-EStrategyIndonesia’s Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the world’s largest pulp and paper company, was attacked in 2011 by Greenpeace in a global campaign against buyers of APP packaging, particularly Mattel. The managing director of APP’s sustainability and stakeholder engagement (SSE) had to address lost sales and the accusation of greenwashing and devise an appropriate response to Greenpeace’s challenge while implementing the APP Group chairman’s goals to promo...Starting at €8.20