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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. My advice is to business leaders is this – don’t just throw money at the symptoms, fix the problem. Credit: Forbes.com.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. But this sort of skill is quite different from providing advice about what stocks and bonds to buy, and will take some time to inculcate. We think this is a bad idea.

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice.