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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Trial and Error Is No Way to Make Strategy

Harvard Business Review

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Even for Companies, the U.S. Is Split Between Haves and Have-Nots

Harvard Business Review

So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. The proportion rose slowly and relatively steadily, reaching 5% by the mid-1990s. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

Make faster decisions for faster rewards: It’s important for businesses to sense, analyze, interpret and act fast on the data insights as competitive advantages will likely be more fleeting than long lasting in the hypercompetitive world.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

Make faster decisions for faster rewards: It’s important for businesses to sense, analyze, interpret and act fast on the data insights as competitive advantages will likely be more fleeting than long lasting in the hypercompetitive world.

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The 4 Types of Project Manager

Harvard Business Review

We argue that even the most stable and conservative industries may be threatened by disruption — and the most dynamic and hypercompetitive industries also entail incremental growth opportunities that can be quantified and realistically assessed.