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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. 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.

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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

“Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy. If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing?

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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 did this by measuring the entrepreneurial strategic focus stated in the annual letters to shareholders of S&P 500 firms between 2000 and 2013. And this transition is much more than a new nameplate on the corner office.

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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

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. 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. The future looked bright. But they must learn it.

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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

As CEO fit decreased, Ballmer’s performance followed and he was pressured out of the job in late 2013. In the late 1990’s, Home Depot’s rapid growth had outpaced its corporate infrastructure and was hiding serious cost management challenges. Boards Leadership Strategy' Ballmer took over, and excelled at, a Box 2 challenge.