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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. Competition Book. Excerpted from.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). Chan Kim , and Renee Mauborgne. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. Braden Kelley.