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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

It would be terribly naïve to assume that nothing in your business will need to change. However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. Consider the management consulting industry.

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Revenge of the HourlyNerds

Harvard Business Review

Last week’s news that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put $450K into the $750K seed round of consulting startup HourlyNerd should make traditional consultants nervous. business schools and select international schools to bid on consulting projects that have been posted by prospective clients, mostly small business owners.