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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

But because midsize companies lack the resources of big companies, which can experiment with multiple new strategies and launch pilot projects, midsize firms are at risk when they divert scarce resources from their core business. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. The results were remarkable.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

And Its Execution Gap Closer Round-Up Execution Gap Closer #1: Netflix Netflix received considerable media attention this year as it demonstrated its ability to successfully execute its strategy to provide video over the Internet. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them. …And