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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

About the Author Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing , is the UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats.

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Shaping Lives, Inspiring Futures: An Interview With Tracy Keogh

HR Digest

she quickly emerged as one of the world’s leading figures in the technology industry. and under your leadership, HP is known to have a diverse and innovative corporate culture. and under your leadership, HP is known to have a diverse and innovative corporate culture. How would you describe your personal approach to leadership?

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Specific competitor information is another $2 billion. It is neither direct, nor unambiguous.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”. They develop action plans. If the company management feels it is operating below this standard most of these practices can be self taught by studying them on the internet or visiting a bookstore. Informed Management [Experienced User or Management 2.0].

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Can Hewlett Packard Make its Own Luck?

Harvard Business Review

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. That put it in the right place at the right time as the technology revolution was beginning.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.