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World Innovation Forum - Clay Christensen

CEO Blog

First speaker is one of my favorites - Clay Christensen. The example he used was the steel business where the big steel mills were attacked at the bottom by low cost minimills. So the minimills looked up to the next market - Angle iron. And once again, minimills moved up etc etc. Outsource everything else."

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Aggressive outsourcing and partnering to improve efficiencies (perhaps a reference to “ The Origins of Strategy, published in 1989 by the granddaddy of strategy consulting, BCG founder Bruce Henderson). But that just shrinks the pie as, in the rush to the bottom, profitability declines for the entire industry.