Gary Hamel

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Gary Hamel - Strategic Business and Innovation speaker
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The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.”  He has also topped Executive Excellence magazine’s annual ranking of the most sought after management speakers.

Management Consultant & Speaker

As a consultant and management educator, Gary 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. 

Gary Hamel speaks frequently at the world’s most prestigious management conferences, and is a regular contributor to CNBC, CNN, and other major media outlets.  He has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.

At present, Gary Hamel is leading an effort to build the world’s first “Management Lab.” The MLab 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: to radically accelerate the evolution of management knowledge and practice.

Publications

Gary 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 book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year.

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 leading publica¬tions around the world.

Since 1983, Gary Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School were he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management. 

Gary Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society.  He lives in Northern California.

Speaking Topics

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,” Gary 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, Gary 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, Gary Hamel can show your organisation how to build tomorrow’s best practices today. 

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Rowan Gibson publishes his latest online column - What exactly is an innovation strategy?
4th September 2009Rowan Gibson is a global business strategist, a bestselling author and an expert on radical innovation. He is also one of the world’s most in-demand business speakers. Rowan’s books have been translated into over 20 languages. His new book Innovation to the Core (co-authored with Peter Skarzynski) was published in March 2008 by Harvard Business School Press. Rowan has just published his latest online column - What exactly is an innovation strategy? To read the article please click on the title.
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WHO MOVED MY GURU?
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Celebrities and poets around the country will be celebrating 16th National Poetry Day today
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Unique boat made from plastic bottles has arrived in Sydney Harbour
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg Estimates A Billion Users for Facebook
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No 10 Downing Street Appoints ?What If! Guru Kris Murrin
21st June 2010?What If! guru Kris Murrin has taken on a senior role at No 10 and she is not the first of the ?What If! innovators to achieve such success. Keynote speaker Chris Barez-Brown has since set up his own company Upping Your Elvis and gone on to write a best-selling book on practical ideas to kick-start your creativity.

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