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Gary Hamel

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The Leading Strategy Expert in Business Today; Author of the Landmark Books Competing for the Future and Leading the Revolution

Fortune magazine has labeled Gary Hamel “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.” The Economist calls him “the world’s reigning strategy guru,” and in the opinion of the Financial Times he is a “management innovator without peer.” Recently, the Journal of Business Strategy listed Hamel as one of the 20^th Century’s 25 most influential business thinkers, along with business pioneers such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates. For the past two years, Executive Excellence magazine has ranked Hamel as the world’s most influential management speaker.

His latest book, What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation, is an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work.

Hamel’s landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management best-seller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is also the author of The Future of Management.

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 business publications around the world.

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

As a consultant and management educator, 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. As one of the world’s most sought after management speakers, Hamel has addressed the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 Global Summit and many other similarly prestigious gatherings. Hamel has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.

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

Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society.

Areas of Expertise: Change Managing, Growth, Leadership, Strategy, International Business, Innovation and Creativity

Program 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. However, in many companies innovation has yet to become a deeply embedded core competence—the work of every employee, every day. What companies need is a detailed blueprint for making innovation a core competence—and this is exactly what Hamel provides. 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 will 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; and manage the day-to-day tension between break-the-rules innovation and tight-fisted operational efficiency. If your company is looking for growth and competitive differentiation, this is vitally important knowledge.

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. The challenge is to build organizations that are forever inventing the future rather than defending the past. Hence, Hamel’s pioneering work on strategic ‘resilience.’ Hamel’s ground-breaking ideas and experience can help your organization 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 compelling 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. These are essential insights if your goal is to build an organization that can change as fast as change itself.

The Ultimate Competitive Advantage - Enduring success doesn’t come from great leadership, or timeless values, or a passion for customers—as important as these things are. Instead, as Hamel’s review of more than 100 years of industrial history has demonstrated, long-term advantage depends primarily on a company’s capacity to proactively reinvent the very principles and processes of management itself. Based on his latest research, Hamel has developed a methodology that can help your company build the ultimate competitive: a capacity to proactively reinvent its management DNA. Specifically, Hamel can show your company how to: anticipate the ‘over-the-horizon’ management challenges that will demand fundamentally new thinking; successfully challenge outmoded management orthodoxies that limit success; uncover the new management principles that will determine industry leadership in the future; and build tomorrow’s best management practices today. In short, Hamel can show your organization how to build the ultimate competitive advantage—management innovation.