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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Among my questions to them: How are you thinking about strategy these days? Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Medium-term value drivers look forward to indicate whether a company can maintain and improve its revenue growth and ROIC over the next one to five years (or longer for companies, such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, that have long product cycles). Copyright (c) 2011. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

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

Strategy Driven

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. SD : What is ‘capabilities-driven strategy?’. Let’s go after it.”

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Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S's story seems to be about a new beginning: the highly anticipated launch of the latest version of a blockbuster consumer-technology product. Technology observers were initially underwhelmed by the iPhone 4S. Both Pfizer and.

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Big Pharma's Mixed Modes of Growth

Harvard Business Review

They might make a targeted acquisition here or there, form an alliance now and again, or license in some specialized technology, but by and large they made their own drugs, supporting big, fully staffed research labs, which they would then market themselves. Historically, big pharma firms made their own drugs.

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China, South Africa Advance Sustainability Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. agreed and added, "More and more of my clients are making sustainability a core part of their business strategy and they want to be able to report on this, with integrated reporting being the best way for them to do so.".

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. These challenges require extraordinary leaders. ” But this is changing. Might there be a general message here?