Decker Communication
MARCH 30, 2020
Over the past 60 days, we’ve seen the corporate equivalent of the rope-a-dope: businesses have been defensive to the extreme, having taken hit after hit as Covid-19 hammered revenue and pummeled the best-laid plans. History shows that even in the hardest times, there are companies that come out swinging and gain competitive advantage.
Six Disciplines
DECEMBER 13, 2013
Small businesses have an enormous advantage in their ability to help people connect to the purpose of the organization, AND enable them to see that what they’re doing is contributing to that purpose in a meaningful way. This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization.
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Six Disciplines
MAY 17, 2013
Small businesses have an enormous advantage in their ability to help people connect to the purpose of the organization, AND enable them to see that what they’re doing is contributing to that purpose in a meaningful way. This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2012
Cost-effective clean-coal technology will be a key competitive advantage, allowing countries to exploit their low-cost energy resources without widespread negative environmental consequences. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2017
For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. They see intelligent systems as solutions for sales, logistics, manufacturing, and business intelligence challenges.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2017
Compartmentalizing accountability for AI with functional leaders in IT, digital, or innovation can result in a hammer-in-search-of-a-nail outcome: technologies being launched without compelling use cases. There’s still time to make AI a competitive advantage. But it’s early days.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2016
No matter how advanced technology is, it needs human partners to enhance competitive advantage. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. The integrated strategy machine’s ultimate function is to produce competitive advantage. Design appropriate to the aim.
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