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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy? “Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy.

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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films. Over the next four years, Amar Chitra Katha's revenues grew seven-fold. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right.

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Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.

Harvard Business Review

No Hierarchy, No Management, No Nothing. How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers First Round Capital. Medium isn''t merely a digital publishing platform; it''s also a fierce adopter of Holacracy, a style of management that is entirely management-free. You Don''t Actually Watch Foreign Films.

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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. Consider what side businesses might be moved to center stage. Diversify.