Ideas and tools in 2007
Both HBR and Bain have come out with lists for 2007. Several bloggers have mentioned these reports, and a few KM bloggers have made a KM connection.
The HBR article was published in the February 2007 issue and is freely available, The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007. The list of twenty ideas is provided by a different thinker, including Michael Schrage, Clay Shirky and David Weinberger. The full list of ideas and their authors is below the fold. "Eclectic" Bill Brantley has pointed to this article with a comment about the items that link to KM. He's keen on Ideas 1 - Accidental Influentials; 4 - Algorithms in the Attic; 15 - Act Globally, Think Locally and 17 - The Best Networks are Really Worknets (which he finds most important). From my perspective, I am also interested in the ideas about innovation: Ideas 6 (User-centered innovation), 11 (Size matters in innovation) and 19 (Ready, fire, aim).
The Bain & Company report, The Bain Consulting, Management Tools 2007: An Executive's Guide, is a (semi) annual report by Bain Director Darrell K. Rigby. The full list of items is below the fold. Rather than ideas from HBR, this report suggests 25 tools that are important to understand and have shown lasting impact for businesses. Gautam Ghosh linked to this one and suggested the following items are most interesting for him: Consumer Ethnography, Collaborative Innovation, Corporate Blogging and Knowledge Management. Obviously, it is exciting to see knowledge management and corporate blogging on the list. And it's interesting to see business process re-engineering there too. I didn't think those activities were still considered top-of-mind in the business world.
- The Accidental Influentials - Duncan J. Watts
- Entrepreneurial Japan - Yoshito Hori
- Brand Magic: Harry Potter Marketing - Frédéric Dalsace, Coralie Damay, and David Dubois
- Algorithms in the Attic - Michael Schrage
- The Leader from Hope - Harry Hutson and Barbara Perry
- An Emerging Hotbed of User-Centered Innovation - Eric von Hippel
- Living with Continuous Partial Attention - Linda Stone
- Borrowing from the PE Playbook - Michael C. Mankins
- When to Sleep on It - Ap Dijksterhuis
- Here Comes XBRL - Robert G. Eccles, Liv Watson, and Mike Willis
- Innovation and Growth: Size Matters - Geoffrey B. West
- Conflicted Consumers - Karen Fraser
- What Sells When Father Knows Best - Phillip Longman
- Business in the Nanocosm - Rashi Glazer
- Act Globally, Think Locally - Yoko Ishikura
- Seeing Is Treating - Klaus Kleinfeld and Erich Reinhardt
- The Best Networks Are Really Worknets - Christopher Meyer
- Why U.S. Health Care Costs Aren’t Too High - Charles R. Morris
- In Defense of “Ready, Fire, Aim” - Clay Shirky
- The Folly of Accountabalism - David Weinberger
The full article has several paragraphs on each item.
The Bain Consulting, Management Tools 2007: An Executive's Guide by Darrell K. Rigby
- Balanced Scorecard
- Benchmarking
- Business Process Reengineering
- Collaborative Innovation
- Consumer Ethnography
- Core Competencies
- Corporate Blogs
- Customer Relationship Management
- Customer Segmentation
- Growth Strategy Tools
- Knowledge Management
- Lean Operations
- Loyalty Management Tools
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Mission and Vision Statements
- Offshoring
- Outsourcing
- RFID
- Scenario and Contingency Planning
- Shared Service Centers
- Six Sigma
- Strategic Alliances
- Strategic Planning
- Supply Chain Management
- Total Quality Management
The full report (pdf) has two pages on each item that provides related topics, a basic description, a methodology for implementation, common uses and a selected set of references. It's a handy reference for organizations that are considering these tools in their future.
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