Strategy and Change

Acknowledgments

THE TOPICS COVERED in this book are discussed in several professional venues where we are active participants. We are honored to work alongside our colleagues at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California Marshall Business School. To augment our team's expertise, we worked with an expert panel of academics and practitioners from other disciplines. These individuals helped us identify issues needing exploration and directed us to the relevant thinking and research currently taking place in their respective fields. Among this group, we'd particularly like to thank Bob Berdahl, Bridget Gainer, Denise Garth, Selma Lalji, Joe Peiser, Deborah Pretty, and Paul Walker.

In line with our previous publication, this book relies heavily on case studies and practitioner-focused frameworks. To help ensure the validity of our examples and the utility of our recommendations, we tested them with executives in the public and private sector, including an intentional focus on applicability across industries. For this input, we'd like to thank Michelle Anderson and Ludovic Leroy; Brian Fitzpatrick, Bob Lucido, Martin McGovern, Amanda Nguyen, and Todd Jones; Rob O'Connell, Meaghan Piscitelli, and Lars Sorensen; Marnie Bute and Charlie Smith; Marinus van Driel and Marc Pajarillo; and Michael Manolakis.

We'd particularly like to thank Aon for the use of several proprietary analytic tools and published reports you'll find cited throughout this text. Aon brings ...