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Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Harvard Business Review

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. million as of 2013. LoL’s 2013 World Championship garnered online viewership of 32 million on Twitch.tv Stories like LoL and Vans illustrate a profound truth about strategy and business. Innovation Strategy'

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business.

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How Boards Can Assess the Health of Their Companies

Harvard Business Review

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. When CEO Tex Gunning took over in 2013, he spent weeks in depots and on trucks and wrote to every frontline employee asking for input.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? To maintain strategic alignment, a company’s people, culture, structure and processes have to flex and change as the strategy itself shifts.

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Research: How a New CEO Can Make a Firm More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the company eventually announced its strategy to venture massively into cloud computing. We researched changes in a firm’s entrepreneurial strategy after CEO successions. We did this by measuring the entrepreneurial strategic focus stated in the annual letters to shareholders of S&P 500 firms between 2000 and 2013.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

Cellairis had tinkered with its core strategy, one that had been working beautifully, and it had turned ugly. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.