BOSTON & BERLIN

What does it take to truly transform an organization?
Innosight’s eighth senior executive summit drew leaders of
companies such as Boeing, Caterpillar, Ford, Johnson & Johnson,
and MasterCard. Held in our Business Design Lab in Lexington, Mass.,
the discussion focused on tackling critical challenges around leading
long-term growth and innovation. The conversation continued at our
first European Summit held a month later in Berlin, which convened
leaders from organizations such as Bayer, BASF, Solvay, and Steelcase.
At both events, we explored ways to solve a leadership paradox, in
which near-term priorities always demand attention while long-term
innovation most critical to growth often gets short shrift. How can
leaders create the time and space for creating the right balance?
We broke it down into three challenges.
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