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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Create diversions when things get difficult. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. They show us how not behave. THE STRATEGY TOURIST: 20 BEHAVIORS.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Despite this modularization, managers still relied on one support system to unify a set of seemingly smaller value chains; information. Develop a vision of the future.

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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. In this regard, a closer examination of the value concept confirms its appeal but also exposes the daunting challenges facing health system reformers.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

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3 Steps to Break Out in a Tired Industry

Harvard Business Review

Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. Of course, developing a new model does not usually end with taking superfluous things out; a new way to compete is more than merely a stripped down version of what came before.

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months.