Core Insights: Strategy
After the success of 'Leading Through COVID-19' and the dedicated channel to Behavioural Science Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow on Strategy to help businesses and organisations. Bringing you the leading academics from Warwick Business School, this podcast series will reveal the latest research and thinking from world-class Professors detailing how Apple do strategy, how to exploit luck, the new open strategy vogue and more.
Episodes
26 episodes
Creating a legacy for major cultural events
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jonothan Neelands, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School, about his that work helped Coventry to develop its winning bid to become UK City of Culture in 2021.The City of Cul...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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26:39
Four ways to stop knowledge leaking in an R&D partnership
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jeff Reuer, Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School and the Guggenheim Endowed Chair and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. Profess...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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28:14
The competency trap and how companies can avoid it
Companies have been falling victim to the competency trap for many years, most notably Kodak, which failed to anticipate the switch to digital cameras in time and disappeared from our lives. Jerker Denrell, Professor of Behavioural Science, exp...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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30:54
The Visuals Strategy Framework – a tool to bring strategy to life
Research by Sotirios Paroutis, Professor of Strategic Management, has found the much-derided PowerPoint is in fact a vital tool in the development of strategy, giving meaning and understanding to the abstract ideas contained in many company's v...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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25:11
Open strategy: why it is growing in popularity and how to do it
Strategy is moving out of the C-suite. More and more companies are involving not just their executives, but employees on the shopfloor and even stakeholders outside of the firm to devise their strategy. Christina Wawarta, Associate Fellow at Wa...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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31:33
How your company should fight back if it has been hit by disruptive innovation
Over nine years Sotirios Paroutis and Luciano Oviedo were able to go behind the scenes at Cisco and see how the company reacted to the emergence of Amazon Web Services' cloud platform that disrupted its established business model. Cisco was abl...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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29:06
The four principles to build long-term survival for a company
Christian Stadler, Professor of Strategic Management, has spent many years studying Europe's century-old firms. Listen to this podcast with Core Insights host Trevor Barnes to discover what he learned about building enduring success and the com...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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30:19
How to exploit luck to gain a competitive advantage
Does luck play a part in business? According to Chengwei Liu's research it plays a huge part, with good luck largely underestimated by managers and bad luck overestimated. Listen to the Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioural Science te...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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29:06
Janus Strategy – the strategy that drove Apple to the top
Named after the Roman God Janus, who could survey two or more directions simultaneously, in this episode Loizos Heracleous explains how Janus Strategy is the route to success for today's top companies. The Professor of Strategy explains to Core...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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35:37
How to transform a corporation through mergers and acquisitions
In 1999 Dow Chemical decided to embark on one of the most ambitious transformations in US corporate history. It decided to pivot from low-margin chemicals into high-margin speciality chemicals and embarked on the acquisition of 138 companies, e...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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29:03
Applying design thinking to your company’s strategy
Design thinking has become the de facto way to innovate for successful companies these days, but it is now moving further up the organisational hierarchy. Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Pietro Micheli, Professor of Business Performan...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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29:22
How to incorporate strategic agility in your business
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy, about agility. Once the manifesto for software designers, agile has worked its way to the top of organisations as companies look to cope with an increasin...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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32:34
How to make sure your organisation is ready for the recession
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes interviews Hossam Zeitoun, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science & Strategy, on his latest research on which firms are able to withstand a recession. Dr Zeitoun analysed nearly 1,000 workplaces before a...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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31:05
How the pandemic has shown the new normal needs rights for whistleblowers
Marianna Fotaki, Professor of Business Ethics, talks to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes about the importance of whistleblowers for organisations and society during the pandemic and in the new normal after it. She argues that instead of fearing...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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25:47
Governments should be up front about the trade-offs made in relaxing lockdown
Graham Loomes, Professor of Behavioural Science, reveals the trade-offs Governments are making between people's health and their livelihoods and argues they should be made transparent as leaders relax lockdown measures to get their economies mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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33:00
Is repurposing drugs our only hope in tackling Coronavirus?
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Ayfer Ali, Assistant Professor of Strategy, on how repurposing already existing drugs provides our best route to treating Coronavirus. Dr Ali reveals how a drugs repurposing strategy can unearth dozens ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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26:37
The types of leadership needed in a crisis like this pandemic
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Keith Grint, Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick and one of the leading figures on leadership in academia. He talks about the different facets of leadership that are needed during a crisis f...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:59
How to lead a virtual team
The lockdown across much of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic has meant many people having to work from home, but how do you lead a team over the internet? Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organisation Studies and Director of the
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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26:50
How to re-invent your business and emerge from lockdown in better shape
In this 'Leading through COVID-19' episode Pietro Micheli, Professor of Business Performance and Innovation, talks through how Design Thinking can help companies find new markets and products, even re-invent their business to cope with the econ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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34:04
How does the Coronavirus tracing app work?
Eivor Oborn, Professor of Healthcare Management, discusses the various coronavirus tracing apps that are being trialled with Core Insights host Trevor Barnes. Professor Oborn explains the disadvantages and advantages of the UK's NHSX app curren...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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29:10
What will the energy industry look like after the pandemic?
With host Trevor Barnes this Core Insights episode sees Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, examine the impact of the global pandemic on the energy industry. Demand for oil has stalled in the economic lockdown with the US experiencing...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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29:59
What firms will survive the pandemic?
John Colley is Professor of Practice in Strategy, a former MD of a FTSE 100 company and has held non-executive director roles on a number of Private Equity boards. Here, Professor Colley talks to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes on what busines...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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31:34
The guiding principles for leading organisations in a crisis
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Associate Professor of Leadership and Innovation, about what leaders should do when their organisation is plunged into a crisis, and for many companies there has been no bigger c...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:27
The biases that afflict leaders in the Coronavirus crisis
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science, author of award-winning book The Mind is Flat and star of BBC Radio 4's The Human Zoo, about the biases and heuristics that leaders suffe...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:43
How to exit the lockdown and save the economy
Warwick Business School's Core Insights series is concentrating its academic expertise on how organisations and societies can navigate the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In this episode host Trevor Barnes talks to Nick Powdthavee, Professor of B...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:39
