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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

He cajoled, pushed, and pulled the company into a client-centric, agile structure able to customize delivery of IBM's software assets, hardware assets, and intellectual property. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness. He's personable, but blunt.