Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Creativity Drucker Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Operations Organizational culture'

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Professional innovation. Business Hall of Fame that I met Peter Drucker. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. These are the ingredients that make a legend: Significant business contributions. Mature confidence and informed judgment. Courage and leadership. High performance standards.

Balanced Scorecard 74

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Having a contextually appropriate strategy may well be the true source of competitive advantage in the game of winning over the Indian consumer. If enforced, such a requirement would eliminate Cloudtail, the largest seller on Amazon India, effectively making its operations illegal.

Price 8

Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8