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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to. Apple still has an edge, in that it built that sea — "so powerful is blue ocean strategy," Chan and Mauborgne write, "that a blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades." That's the path to riches described by W.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

One could perhaps usefully divide the vast universe of subsequent strategy ideas into those that focus on: Doing something new. Building on what you already do. Reacting opportunistically to emerging possibilities. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .”