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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid). The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. To quote the late, great C.K.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important. Ideas define our humanity.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ).