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Are You Aware Of The 3 Approaches to Strategic Planning?

The Empowered Buisness

Even though I did strategy development for billion dollar corporations in the early days of my business 30 years ago, I had no idea that there were 3 different approaches to strategic planning. One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. Peter Green.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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When Start-ups Should (and Shouldn’t) Partner with Industry Leaders

Harvard Business Review

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. At first glance, it appears that Blue Origin is merely supplying a resource, its innovative BE4 engine, to ULA.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That''s not right. Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top? In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system.

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Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth

Harvard Business Review

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses.