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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

Teams and agile methodology have become the dominant form of organization for environments featuring high uncertainty and rapid change, where business models are challenged by disrupters. How you disaggregate or cleave a problem has a big impact on the insight you get into a problem.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. Under the hood, the business model is fundamentally not very different from that of a traditional rental car company. Sadly, the Zipcar culture may not survive the merger.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work. This would allow airlines to leverage the experience and insight of skilled pilots in a much more efficient way.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

A scaled blockchain accelerates the process, without sacrificing security, by figuring out how many computers are necessary to validate each transaction and dividing up the work efficiently. To manage this without compromising the legendary security and robustness of blockchain is a difficult problem, but not an intractable one.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

So it began disaggregating return on equity into three components. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). This simple formula provides rich insight into a company's business model, and can quickly diagnose a company's strengths or opportunity areas. Financial leverage (assets over equity).

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

It allowed for greater efficiency to do the same things that were done in the industrial era. So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media. And the information age (inclusive of Web 1.0