Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The company was in free fall.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. Soon, carriers everywhere — and, by 2011, all four national networks in the U.S. Since 1994 the U.S.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. In August, WeChat started rolling out an impressive international series of new games —another move aimed at disrupting Tencent’s core business. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. ” The researchers estimated that for every $1 increase in the amount repatriated in 2005, the companies increased distributions to shareholders by $0.60

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. since 2005 are due to this phenomenon. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9