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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy. When clustering markets, grouping only countries that can be effectively managed as one cluster is critical, and strong distributor relationships and oversight are essential.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No. 3 globally). Diversify.