Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. Congressional Hearings. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. What are our core-competencies?), Far-fetched, you think? Who are our competitors?

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

For three decades after Deng Xiaoping opened the Chinese economy to the West, government policy was to shrink the overwhelming state sector and expand the private market economy. Nearly all the government spending and bank loans went to state-owned companies, strongly bolstering the state-controlled economy against the market-driven economy.

Policies 11

Policies Politics Core Competence Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. It’s been estimated that India needs $5 trillion in infrastructure investment to sustain its economic growth, but local Indian companies lack the competencies needed.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8