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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’.

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Profitable Audacity: One Company's Success Story

Harvard Business Review

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. The real magic is in process innovation. Aravind uses a highly efficient production system, which slashes the cost-per-procedure. The new reality is austerity.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.

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The Missing Political Debate Over the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Hillary Clinton has a tech and innovation agenda. 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. digital industries. The Digital Economy as a Jobs Risk.