Speaking
I speak on
topics related to business, strategy and technology. From conceiving and implementing
FAST strategies to pragmatic technology approaches, I seek to challenge traditional
assumptions and help uncover simple, yet profitable solutions best suited to
your company's situation. Get details >>
Papers
- Moving
from Push to Pull - Emerging Models for Mobilizing Resources
(PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- Capturing
the Real Value from Offshoring in Asia (PDF)
John Hagel
- The
Agile Dance of Architectures – Reframing IT Enabled Business Opportunities
(PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- Overview
of Working Paper Series (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- Break
On Through to the Other Side: A Missing Link in Redefining the Enterprise
(PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- The
Secret to Creating Value from Web Services Today: Start Simply (PDF)
John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Dennis Layton-Rodin
- Service
Grids: The Missing Link in Web Services (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- Some
Security Considerations for Service Grids (PDF)
Martin Milani and John Seely Brown
- Control
versus Trust: Mastering a Different Management Approach (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- Orchestrating
Business Processes - Harnessing the Value of Web Services Technology (PDF)
John Hagel and John Seely Brown
- Orchestrating
Loosely Coupled Business Processes: The Secret to Successful Collaboration
(PDF)
John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Scott Durchslag
We must all find ways to do more with less. Companies need more impact with less overhead. You need it from your own organization. And you also need it from your consultants. Learn more about my:
- Consulting
Focus
- Service Lines
- Insight & Experience
Consulting
Focus
Through Deloitte, I work with senior management teams to:
- Define actionable business strategies to create more value
- Accelerate near-term performance improvement
- Target and exploit longer-term growth options
I add value quickly by:
- Challenging comfortable (and often unstated) assumptions
- Outlining plausible options that push the performance envelope
- Working as a sounding board and counselor to management to help remove bottlenecks
Service
Lines
I tailor my approach to maximize impact. Every situation is different.
Some of the options we can tailor are:
- Retainer-based counseling. Advise senior executives or management teams on the most pressing business issues they face, spending one or more days each month.
- Implementing
FAST approaches to strategy.
Help senior management teams to shift to new strategy approaches to
operate effectively under increasing uncertainty.
Or I can work with client teams to address specific business issues, for example:
- Implementing new approaches to strategy. Help senior management teams to shift to new strategy approaches to operate effectively under increasing uncertainty.
- Revenue enhancement. Define programs to more effectively segment the market, accelerate near-term market penetration and generate more value from existing customer relationships.
- Leveraged growth strategies. Develop initiatives to more effectively mobilize third party resources to add value to your customers.
- Senior management workshops. Create and lead workshops to build shared understanding and action programs on selected topics or issues, including business scenarios, leveraged growth strategies and unbundling the corporation.
- Offshoring and outsourcing strategies. Expanding the business impact from offshoring and outsourcing relationships by aggressively targeting appropriate opportunities and designing relationships that support broader business goals.
- Unbundling the enterprise. Design strategies to maximize asset values by reshaping the enterprise - shedding under-performing assets (e.g., business process outsourcing) and generating more value from distinctive assets (e.g., turning cost centers into profit centers)
- Cost savings diagnostic. Identify and prioritize operational savings (both expense and assets) opportunities.
- Harnessing the business value of information technology. Help senior management teams to understand the business opportunities created by new generations of information technology and work with client teams to define programs to rapidly generate savings and revenue enhancement using the technology.
- Internet-based strategies. Using the Internet as a platform to develop broader and deeper relationships with customers through collaborative marketing and double loop marketing techniques.
- Community-building.
Design approaches to deepen relationships with customers and increase
revenue by developing both online and off-line communities.
- Measuring success. Work with senior management teams to identify and quantify a few key operating performance measures that will focus the organization and generate more economic value.
Insight
& Experience
I provide what you need to reach the next level of performance:
Distinctive insight
(see also Perspectives)
- business
strategy in rapidly evolving markets with high uncertainty
- role of
information technology in reshaping the business landscape
- new ways of
managing business processes spanning multiple enterprises
- approaches
to generate more business value from information technology
Delivering
the keynote presentation at the Microsoft CEO Summit 2003
Broad
experience (see also Bio)
- 25 years as a management consultant and senior executive
- Experience with both entrepreneurial startups and large enterprises
- Work with businesses in North America, Europe and Asia
- Involvement with companies in all major industry sectors
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Blogs
- The Big Shift (HBR)
- EdgePerspectives blog
Books
The
Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison
ALSO
The
Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction
and Dynamic Specialization
by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
- Out
of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through
Web Services
by John Hagel III
- Net
Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules
by John Hagel, III and Marc Singer
- Net
Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities
By John Hagel, III and Arthur G. Armstrong
Deloitte
ongoing
research:
The 2009 Shift Index
The Big Shift Index: Uncovering the Emerging Logic of Deep Change
www.edgeperspectives.com
Cloud Computing working papers
BusinessWeek
The Next Wave of Open Innovation
April, 2009
Does the Experience Curve Matter Today?
April, 2009
Peer-to-Patent: A System for Increasing Transparency
March, 2009
How World of Warcraft Promotes Innovation
January, 2009
Harrah's New Twist on Prediction Markets
December, 2008
Innovation for Hard Times
November 2008
How SAP Seeds Innovation
July 2008
Student Activism Can Change the World
May 2008
Myelin Repair Foundation's
Institutional Innovation
May 2008
Learning from Facebook
April 2008
Learning from Tata's Nano
February 2008
Catching the Innovation Wave
January 2008
Phoning from the Edge
January 2008
Embrace the Edge - or Perish
November 2007
Funding Invention vs.
Managing Innovation
February 2006
Articles
- Creation Nets: Harnessing the Potential of Open Innovation (co-authored with John Seely Brown) April, 2006
- Connecting Globalization & Innovation: Some Contrarian Perspectives (Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland January 25 – 30, 2006; co-authored with John Seely Brown)
- "The
Benefits of a Long Distance Relationship" (co-authored with John Seely Brown),
August 9, 2005
- "Feed R&D - Or Farm It Out?" (HBR Case Study with Commentary co-authored with John Seely Brown), July 2005
- "Productive Friction: How Difficult Business Partnerships Can Accelerate Innovation" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), February 2005
- "From Push to Pull: The Next Frontier of Innovation" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), 2005, No.3
- "Innovation Blowback: Disruptive Management Practices from Asia" (co-authored with John Seely Brown), 2005, No.1
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