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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

And the impact of competitive information on an organization’s decisions is one of those things that can hardly ever be measured. Since impact can’t be measured and therefore results can’t be directly attributed to the competitive information, management resorts to measuring the wrong thing, exactly as Drucker feared.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it?

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

” (A bill was introduced in 2015 to raise the cap and liberalize other rules around H-1Bs, but died in Congress.) Outsourcing has been a trend in information management for years, as companies have increasingly hired contractors (at lower cost) to do tasks such as software programming and data entry, processing, and storage.