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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

As the ultimate outputs of an organization’s activities are value for the buyer and revenue for itself and its inputs are the costs to produce them and the people to deliver them, the three strategy propositions of buyer value, profit (revenue minus costs), and people capture the essence of what an organization’s activity system does.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets.