Core Insights: Strategy

Warwick Business School

After the success of 'Leading Through COVID-19' and the dedicated channel to Behavioural Science Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow on Strategy to help businesses and organisations. Bringing you the leading academics from Warwick Business School, this podcast series will reveal the latest research and thinking from world-class Professors detailing how Apple do strategy, how to exploit luck, the new open strategy vogue and more.

  1. 11.07.2024

    Creating a legacy for major cultural events

    Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jonothan Neelands, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School, about his that work helped Coventry to develop its winning bid to become UK City of Culture in 2021. The City of Culture programme, and events such as the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham in 2022, are seen as individual successes. However, the UK currently lacks a major events strategy to maximise the benefits of future events. Professor Neelands reveals how a framework for measuring the impact and the value of major events can help to make events more inclusive, maximise the benefits for the UK economy, and ensure a lasting cultural and sporting legacy. Read more on the subject: Five steps to improve the impact value of major events Why measuring social impact is good for business Increase the odds of success in digital transformation For more articles on Strategy and Organisational Change straight to your inbox sign up to Core Insights. Learn more about strategy on our Executive Education four-day courses at WBS London at The Shard.

    27 мин.
  2. Four ways to stop knowledge leaking in an R&D partnership

    20.04.2021

    Four ways to stop knowledge leaking in an R&D partnership

    Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jeff Reuer, Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School and the Guggenheim Endowed Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. Professor Reuer explains how R&D partnerships are both necessary and can be done without either company exposing their trade secrets to each other. He has researched how knowledge leaks in these sort of partnerships and puts forward four ways in which companies can make sure any partnership they enter remains water tight.  Read more on the subject here and why companies partnering with their closest rival can actually work well here.

    28 мин.
  3. The competency trap and how companies can avoid it

    13.04.2021

    The competency trap and how companies can avoid it

    Companies have been falling victim to the competency trap for many years, most notably Kodak, which failed to anticipate the switch to digital cameras in time and disappeared from our lives. Jerker Denrell, Professor of Behavioural Science, explains to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes just what the competency trap is and how firms can avoid it,  detailing the mindset and steps needed. Read more on how to avoid the competency trap here.

    31 мин.
  4. The Visuals Strategy Framework – a tool to bring strategy to life

    31.03.2021

    The Visuals Strategy Framework – a tool to bring strategy to life

    Research by Sotirios Paroutis, Professor of Strategic Management, has found the much-derided PowerPoint is in fact a vital tool in the development of strategy, giving meaning and understanding to the abstract ideas contained in many company's vision. Professor Paroutis tells Core Insights host Trevor Barnes how his Visuals Strategy Framework can help those building a strategy to maximise their presentations with the right visuals and information to bring clarity and agreement.  Read more on the Visuals Strategy Framework here.

    25 мин.
  5. Open strategy: why it is growing in popularity and how to do it

    23.03.2021

    Open strategy: why it is growing in popularity and how to do it

    Strategy is moving out of the C-suite. More and more companies are involving not just their executives, but employees on the shopfloor and even stakeholders outside of the firm to devise their strategy. Christina Wawarta, Associate Fellow at Warwick Business School and Senior Manager Corporate Strategy at Europe's biggest home appliances manufacturer BSH, explains how open strategy works and its advantages. She also details the tools companies will need to carry out their own open strategy process to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes. For more on open strategy read 'Six lessons on open strategy from Wikimedia' and 'What tools do firms need for open strategy'.

    32 мин.
  6. How your company should fight back if it has been hit by disruptive innovation

    18.03.2021

    How your company should fight back if it has been hit by disruptive innovation

    Over nine years Sotirios Paroutis and Luciano Oviedo were able to go behind the scenes at Cisco and see how the company reacted to the emergence of Amazon Web Services' cloud platform that disrupted its established business model. Cisco was able to come back and Core Insights host Trevor Barnes interviews the pair to find out the five lessons they learned through their research that other companies can use to come back from a disruptive innovation. Read more on the research here.

    29 мин.
  7. The four principles to build long-term survival for a company

    08.03.2021

    The four principles to build long-term survival for a company

    Christian Stadler, Professor of Strategic Management, has spent many years studying Europe's century-old firms. Listen to this podcast with Core Insights host Trevor Barnes to discover what he learned about building enduring success and the common themes that has seen companies like Shell,  Allianz, Siemens and Legal & General prosper for so long. Professor Stadler details the four principles that can help companies lay the foundations for developing a sustainable competitive advantage. Read more about Professor Stadler's research on enduring success here. You can also read his book on the subject, plus, Professor Stadler reveals the five reads you need to build a strategy in uncertain times like the current global pandemic.

    30 мин.
  8. How to exploit luck to gain a competitive advantage

    01.03.2021

    How to exploit luck to gain a competitive advantage

    Does luck play a part in business? According to Chengwei Liu's research it plays a huge part, with good luck largely underestimated by managers and bad luck overestimated. Listen to the Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioural Science tell Core Insights host Trevor Barnes how luck and people's ignorance of it can be used to build a strategy to beat your rivals. Read more on how to use luck to your advantage by using Dr Liu's Analytical Behavioural Strategy here. You can also read an extract from Dr Liu's book Luck: A Key Idea for Business and Society here.

    29 мин.
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After the success of 'Leading Through COVID-19' and the dedicated channel to Behavioural Science Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow on Strategy to help businesses and organisations. Bringing you the leading academics from Warwick Business School, this podcast series will reveal the latest research and thinking from world-class Professors detailing how Apple do strategy, how to exploit luck, the new open strategy vogue and more.

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