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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

This is why a sustainable blue ocean strategy requires a fully developed and consistent set of three propositions. If a strategy does not fully develop and align the three strategy propositions, short-lived success or failure typically results. Achieving Blue Ocean Strategic Alignment. Excerpted from.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Strategy, it follows for Porter, is a matter of working out your company’s best position relative not just to pricing pressures from rivals but to all the forces in your competitive environment. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain.