Fri.Sep 30, 2011

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You Can’t Analyze Your Way to Growth

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger Martin for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing [.].

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How and Why Market Anomalies and Incongruities Can Reveal 10 Clues to Business Opportunity

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Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article that appears in strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, Donald Sull shares his insights concerning how and why market anomalies and incongruities may point the way to the next breakthrough strategy, thence to a wealth of business opportunities. To check out a wealth of [.].

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Michael E. Raynor: An interview by Bob Morris

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Michael E. Raynor, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, provides consulting services to senior executives in the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries. In his client projects and research, Michael explores the challenges of corporate strategy, innovation and growth. However, as he once observed, ”Case studies of past results are a weak foundation for predicting future outcomes.

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3 Questions to Ask Before Adopting That Best Practice

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Best practices are alluring. If other companies have already determined the best way to do something, why not just do what they did? But before you run [.].