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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):

Strategy Driven

His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world. Strategy is about the “how.” Policies address the “what.”

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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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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization.

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity?

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A Framework for Strategists Assessing Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups. Globalization decisions are undoubtedly complex.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. IT management'

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Instead of buying batteries, consumers would buy subscriptions for miles (just as mobile-phone operators sell subscriptions to minutes). By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. When Better Place was founded, its strategy called for initial rollouts in Israel and Denmark. Better Place''s solution eliminated this risk.