Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel (born 1954 ) is an American economist and business consultant.

Life

Gary Hamel, a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, is the head of Strategos, a consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois, and visiting professor of strategy management at the London Business School. Furthermore, Hamel Director of the Woodside Institute, a nonprofit research foundation in Woodside (California). Hamel is considered one of the most influential management thinkers.

Previously Hamel also worked as a Visiting Professor of International Business at the University of Michigan ( Ph.D. 1990) and Harvard Business School.

Working

In the developed jointly with CK Prahalad book Competing for the Future Hamel examines two ways to improve the efficiency of companies: growth and cost reduction. However, although there are two ways most companies focus on cost reduction. Hamel and Prahalad see this as a "lack of vision " which, instead of leading to lack of integration and strategies for growth.

To change they propose to develop a vision of what does not exist ( yet), and to develop a strategy on how to get there. This strategic intent ( strategic intent ) then forces the organization to look beyond the horizons of today. Hamel and Prahalad define Strategic Intent as an ambitious and compelling dream that are driving. It provides the emotional and intellectual energy for the journey into the future.

The concept of strategic adaptation to the environment ( strategic fit ) thus represent a second concept of strategic expansion ( strategic stretch) to the side and claim that long-term success of the appropriate use of both depends.

In addition, Hamel, together with CK Prahalad, as the author of the concept of core competencies, exceptional, rare combinations of resources and skills that are applicable to different markets, a significant share of the perceived value of the product and are difficult copyable applies.

Writings

  • The Core Competence of the Corporation, Harvard Business Review 1990
  • Strategy as revolution, Harvard Business Review 1996
  • Competing for the Future, Harvard Business School Press 1997
  • Leading the Revolution, Harvard Business School Press 2000
  • The Future of Management, Harvard Business School Press 2007
  • What matters now, Jossey Bass John Wiöey & Sons Inc. 2012 German edition What matters it now. Successful in times uncompromising change, brutal competition and unstoppable innovation. Wiley -VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2013, ISBN 978-3-52750713-9.
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