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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Create diversions when things get difficult. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior.

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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.

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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. Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. I really believe that Hanguk is committed to diversity and is firmly anti-discrimination. Diversity and Inclusion.