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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. I mean it does seem to me that we have to start thinking through what the sources of competitive advantage for companies are when information is ubiquitous and even the knowledge that we need to bring to bear to solve problems is widely held. That’s one set of reasons.

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

” Building an organization and amassing a competitive advantage work much the same way. As the famous management professor Henry Mintzberg noted: “Think of the organizations you most admire. That is because, ultimately, competitive advantage comes from people, rather than products or patents.

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The Dangers of the Minimal Viable Product

Harvard Business Review

Let real customers use the product and learn from their feedback (Henry Mintzberg dubbed this process "emergent strategy" in an influential 1985 article [PDF] ). Competitive advantage comes from innovative ways of creating, capturing, and delivering value. Instead, put something "good enough" in the marketplace.