Seven lessons from Tencent’s Pony Ma

This article discusses how Pony Ma (founder, chairman and chief executive of Tencent) uses ‘Seven Principles’ to guide product creation.

• Publication Date: 01/05/2018
• Language: English
• Pages: 4

Caso Glovo: ¿Ha llegado la agilidad estratégica para quedarse?

This article introduces the topic of strategic agility and shows how the Spanish company Glovo has followed this approach since inception

• Publication Date: 1/6/2021
• Language: Spanish
• Pages: 9

¿Qué factores hacen que una empresa familiar sea estratégicamente ágil?

This article provides an overview of those factors that family businesses employ to achieve strategic agility

• Publication Date: 1/10/2022
• Language: Spanish
• Pages: 3

New Strategic Direction and Restructuring: The NH Hotel Group Case

This article provides an in-depth study of NH Hotel Group since its establishment until 2016. Specifically it shows the strategic plan that the company pursued to move from a challenging situation driven both internally and externally.

• Publication Date: 17/11/2016
• Language: English & Spanish
• Pages: 54

Empirical study of national technological innovation capability in Africa

This paper performs an analysis of the technological innovation capability in 30 African countries

• Publication Date: 20/11/2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 24

WeChat: behind the scenes at China’s most successful app

In this article authors provide an analysis of WeChat’s internal innovation process, how it created the original product, how it stays abreast of user needs and how it remains innovative and agile even though it has more than 2,000 employees.

The article is based on exclusive interviews with Allen Zhang and ten other senior executives, as well as extensive desk research.

How a 100,000-strong company is relearning how to innovate

This article explains how Bayer is actively investing in innovation and using Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) to train their employees

• Publication Date: 24/04/2019
• Language: English
• Pages: 4

What drives strategic agility? Evidence from a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (FsQCA)

This article studies what are the key drivers of strategic strategic agility in organisations. The article combines a survey to 40 companies and case studies, and leverages Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (FsQCA) to derive the results.

• Publication Date: 31/12/2022
• Language: English
• Pages: 30

The Kind of Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success

WeChat, the messaging app, dominates daily life in China. We conducted an in-depth study of the company, through exclusive interviews with 15 executives, including founder Allen Zhang. We argue that WeChat’s success wasn’t achieved through technological superiority, but through the vision – or grand design – of Zhang. We explore how the grand design approach to innovation – where a new product or service emerges fully-formed in the mind’s eye of the innovator before it is developed and commercialized – can be more effective than design thinking under certain circumstances, most notably when a market is in its early formative stage of development

• Publication Date: 29/10/2019
• Language: English
• Pages: N/A

Mapping research trends on strategic agility over the past 25 years: insights from a bibliometric approach

This article studies what had been published on the topic of strategic agility, providing an understanding of where the topic sat and what key gaps existed. The article shows that strategic agility is a concept that had not reached maturity nor consensus.

• Publication Date: 23/04/2021
• Language: English
• Pages: 20