Fortune magazine has labeled Gary Hamel "the world's leading expert on business
strategy" and The Economist calls him "the world's reigning strategy guru."
Recently, the Journal of Business Strategy listed Hamel as one of the 20th
century's 25 most influential business thinkers, along with business pioneers
such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates. For the past three years, Executive
Excellence magazine has ranked Hamel as the world's most influential management
speaker.
Hamel's landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future,
have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into
more than 20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management (Harvard
Business School Press, October 2007), was voted Best Business Book of 2007 by
the editors of Amazon.com.
Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard
Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review's history. He
has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and
many other business publications around the world.
Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School were he
is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.
As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for companies as
diverse as General Electric, Time Warner, Nokia, Nestle, Shell, Best Buy,
Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as
"strategic intent," "core competence," "industry revolution," and "management
innovation" have changed the practice of management in companies around the
world. As one of the world's most sought after management speakers, Hamel has
addressed the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 Global Summit and many
other similarly prestigious gatherings. Hamel has also advised government
leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial
competitiveness.
At present, Hamel is leading an effort to build the world's first "Management
Innovation Lab." The Lab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which
progressive companies and world renowned management scholars work together to
co-create "tomorrow's best practices" today. The goal: radically accelerating
the evolution of management knowledge and practice.
Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management
Society.
Innovation From Everyone, Every Day:
In a world filled with new, ultra-low cost competitors, ever more powerful
customers and hyper-competitive markets, innovation is the only way to
out-perform the industry average. Based on twenty years of ground-breaking
research, and a score of high-profile assignments in some of the world's most
respected companies, Hamel can show you and your colleagues how to:
- Unlock the innovation potential of every employee
- Build a portfolio of high-impact, game-changing strategies
- Dramatically multiply the returns on innovation investment
- Build management systems that keep everyone focused on innovation
- Manage the day-to-day tension between innovation and operational
efficiency.
This critical knowledge can help your organization unleash its full
innovation potential.
A Company That Is As Nimble As Change Itself:
As the pace of change accelerates, so must the pace of strategic renewal in
every organization. All too often deep change is crisis-driven and episodic;
too seldom is it opportunity-driven and continuous. Drawing on his pioneering
work on strategic resilience, Hamel's can help your company to:
- Recognize the warning signs of "strategy decay"
- Overcome the arrogance and denial that so often frustrates strategic
renewal
- Build a future-oriented vision that is powerful enough to overcome the
gravitational pull of the past
- Accelerate the shift of resources from legacy programs to future-oriented
initiatives
- Weave the principles of resilience into every management process and
practice.
If the goal is a company that can change as fast as change itself, these are
essential insights.
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage:
Over the past 100 years, the most profound and enduring shifts in
competitive position have come from management innovation-dramatic
breakthroughs in how companies are managed, led and structured. Based on his
most recent research, Hamel has developed a methodology that can help your
company build the ultimate competitive advantage- an ability to proactively
reinvent its management DNA. Specifically, Hamel can show your company how to:
- Anticipate the "over-the-horizon" management challenges that
will determine success in the years ahead
- Successfully challenge the outmoded management orthodoxies that limit
success
- Uncover the new management principles that will determine industry
leadership in the future
- Build a capability for ongoing management innovation across your
company.
In short, Hamel can show your organization how to build tomorrow's best
practices today.
