Team spirit, innovation and business success

People are naturally cooperative and humans have a phenomenal capacity to work collaboratively in teams according to Lynda Gratton, Professor of management practise, London Business School, one of the contributors of Peter Day’s latest In Business programme. He visits the preparations of the Cambridge University boat race team to discover some of the factors that influence team-building and its significance in helping businesses to innovate, raise productivity, succeed in markets and drive shareholder value. Increasingly modern business organisations are looking for team-players, we hear that Goldman Sachs may put people through up to sixty interviews before taking them on! The programme interviews the author Mark de Rond, Reader in strategy & organisation, Judge Business School, Cambridge who has written a book about his experiences with the Cambridge boat race crew entitled “The Last Amateurs”.

Copycats and ‘Me Too’ products [25 May 2012]
Rising to the top of the milk [22 May 2012]
Measuring the competitiveness of a business [18 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Operations and Technology [17 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Making Operational Decisions [17 May 2012]
Epic fail: how to do really badly [15 May 2012]
BUSS2 Magic Formula [15 May 2012]
Vodafone and Cable and Wireless Worldwide [25 Apr 2012]
Predictions of a dramatic change in the way goods are produced - and how it may change business [25 Apr 2012]
Flaws in Tesco’s strategy [24 Apr 2012]
Technological change - manufacturing and innovation [20 Apr 2012]
Strategy - How Nokia was overtaken by Apple and Samsung [17 Apr 2012]
Sony - Hirai’s Turnaround Strategy - in Video Clips [13 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Business & the Technological Environment [9 Apr 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Start-ups - the Wooden Smartphone? [4 Mar 2012]
Pink bricks for girls?  Lego builds a new strategy [2 Mar 2012]
VW targets growth markets [26 Feb 2012]
Barriers to entry for business expansion to Brazil [23 Feb 2012]
The 3Ds of management [18 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
Product innovation - extending the humble cupcake [10 Feb 2012]
Video resource: Do bonuses work as an incentive for better performance? [10 Feb 2012]
The history of Apple’s product innovation - in 30 seconds [10 Feb 2012]
Happiness in the workplace still proving elusive [6 Feb 2012]
Private equity buyouts - Sunday Times supplement [5 Feb 2012]
Glenstrata - Glencore proposes merger with Xstrata [3 Feb 2012]
Success for the Daily Mail’s online strategy [30 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Howard Schultz on the importance of leading an innovative culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Tough decisions to turn Starbucks around [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - what qualities does an effective leader and manager have? [29 Jan 2012]
Strategic choice: What should Apple do for its investors? [29 Jan 2012]
Technological change: 3-D printing promises a new industrial revolution [28 Jan 2012]
Technological change: now you can have your own factory! [28 Jan 2012]
External influences: the threat that is China [22 Jan 2012]
What’s gone wrong for Kodak? [19 Jan 2012]
Strategy Lessons from the Tesco Downfall [15 Jan 2012]
Business size and the innovation debate [11 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Operational Objectives [3 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Economies of Scale & Resource Mix [3 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Innovation [2 Jan 2012]
Business Innovation - where do good ideas come from? [2 Jan 2012]
Why is productivity rising in the US? [1 Jan 2012]
Investment in People - Google and Human Capital [26 Dec 2011]
International operations decisions - Adidas trainers for $1? [26 Nov 2011]
A trip down memory lane for a great business studies resource [3 Nov 2011]
Technology and Business - Microsoft’s vision of the mobile future is astounding (video) [28 Oct 2011]
Strategy case study - does Microsoft have a long-term strategy? [21 Oct 2011]
How PepsiCo are trying to control diseconomies of scale [18 Oct 2011]
Pining for Success - Heston’s mince pie innovation [13 Oct 2011]
Management By Committee? Not At Apple [9 Oct 2011]
Virtual shopping - Tesco in South Korea [6 Oct 2011]
Selling Bread - Classic Adverts [6 Oct 2011]
Ansoff and the Boston Matrix can’t help Kodak [6 Oct 2011]
Invention in a Bottle [28 Sep 2011]
Insights on invention from Trevor Bayliss [14 Sep 2011]
Waitrose Strategy Essay [13 Sep 2011]
Olaf takes the knife to management hierarchy [5 Sep 2011]
Can investment in R&D provide a competitive advantage? [31 Aug 2011]
How can Tesco’s be “Unscalable?”-First lesson/research task into companies in different markets [31 Aug 2011]
Nurofen Plus and the importance of quality - [28 Aug 2011]
Automation and the arrival of 290,000 robots [2 Aug 2011]
New study shows CSR pays dividends [11 Jul 2011]
Where there’s muck there’s brass [6 Jul 2011]
Innovation and Persistence holds the Key for King of Shaves [4 Jul 2011]
Evan Davis ‘Made in Britain’ - and a new trade data tool to play with [21 Jun 2011]
The Chocolate Business Angel’s Views on Entrepreneurs [21 Jun 2011]
ResearchBuster: New Leaders and Strategic Change [16 Jun 2011]
Technology & innovation - extending the humble contact lense [9 Jun 2011]
What makes Ferguson great? [27 May 2011]
Organic growth strategy - the benefits if firms “believe in better” [24 May 2011]
CSR - Can better social responsibility boost the UK economy by £17bn? [12 May 2011]
Jaguar goes for NPD investment with £5bn plan [10 May 2011]
Lesson Worksheet - Capacity Utilisation [5 May 2011]
Life in the chocolate factory - automation, productivity, motivation and culture [24 Apr 2011]
Howard Schultz - A Changed Starbucks. A Changed C.E.O [13 Mar 2011]
Nestle - using branding & productivity to overcome commodity price increases [17 Feb 2011]
Michael Porter - Shared Value and the Limitations of CSR [15 Feb 2011]
An idea that’s a lot of hot air…. [11 Jan 2011]
Innovation and ideas - what makes a successful business concept? [8 Jan 2011]
What strategy should HMV employ next? [6 Jan 2011]
Video case study - Harris Tweed prospers through innovation and international expansion [29 Dec 2010]
Q&A - Explain what is meant by labour productivity and how it can be measured? [28 Dec 2010]
Innovation and Invention - the Toy Story [23 Dec 2010]
Innovative ice breakers to fill a market gap [2 Dec 2010]
Dominos Pizza - Growth & Strategy (Part 2) - Innovation, Service and Smart Operations [26 Nov 2010]
Dominos Pizza - Growth & Strategy (Part 1) - Driving Competitive Advantage [26 Nov 2010]
Leadership in action - A Day in the Life of Willie Walsh [25 Oct 2010]
Strategy - The Challenges Facing Nokia [21 Oct 2010]
Rationalising & Redeployment at Alliance Boots [9 Oct 2010]
Google on the changing face of advertising [8 Oct 2010]
Strategy in Action: “Buying Growth is Not a Strategy” [20 Sep 2010]
Can new leadership revive Nokia’s fortunes [12 Sep 2010]
Can small firms shrug off their recession trauma? [2 Sep 2010]
Recession Strategy - Manufacturing Emerges Leaner and Fitter [25 Aug 2010]
Strategy in action - Mitchell & Butlers stays focused [9 Aug 2010]
Essential business reading for the summer! [5 Aug 2010]
The technological wave in television - who will win the 3D battle? [30 Jul 2010]
Does Nokia’s Strategy Need An Upgraded CEO? [30 Jul 2010]

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