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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. But even the best companies still struggle to make real progress in this area. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning.

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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

It's why the CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi recently declared that "Marketing is dead." Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks. Organizations are also experiencing a shift as employees become more empowered and connected. Organizations are also experiencing a shift as employees become more empowered and connected.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. Companies in these industries are responding in surprising ways. Recognizing the shifting roles of customers, competitors, and partners.

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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

For example, in the U.S., Although rare, there are companies that have made the shift from process to principles-based management. This means different things for product development, marketing, and customer service. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. As Erik Brynjolfsson said, to succeed in the future, " We must reinvent our organizations and our whole economic system.".

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Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

Harvard Business Review

In a recent Harvard Business Review article we explore how companies require three mutually supportive capabilities to fully exploit data and analytics: an ability to identify and manage multiple sources of data, the capacity to build advanced analytic models, and the critical management muscle to transform the organization.