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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Strategic investments are critical to future business success. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. The organization currently depends on these investments for success.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.