Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart had become the odd retailer out but still kept 1,500 stores for its reorganization. In 1999, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Now six years later, an actual event has occurred that is eerily similar to that fictional scenario: a trusted retailer’s point-of-sale system security was breached and a large amount of customer data may be compromised. In the current situation, the retailer is much larger as is the number of accounts affected. Are you ready?

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