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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Benchmarking and adopting best practices (a veiled reference to everyone’s favorite punching bag, In Search of Excellence ). Aggressive outsourcing and partnering to improve efficiencies (perhaps a reference to “ The Origins of Strategy, published in 1989 by the granddaddy of strategy consulting, BCG founder Bruce Henderson).

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

You have to be tracking trends your competitors haven’t yet noticed, then figuring out ways of using them to upend traditional business models. Historical benchmarks are of limited value when a product has no antecedents, and it’s hard to pin down the future value of an idea that exists only as a concept.