Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 6, 2020
After all, with so many happy customers under your belt, there’s no reason to deprive potential new clients of your skillfully manicured lawns and pristinely trimmed hedges. While not necessarily standard in all lawn care software, some of the more advanced iterations will even allow you to track chemical usage.
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 2, 2020
Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. The researchers suggest that the desire for small firms to move could be because they have a smaller order book that doesn’t allow them to hedge their risk in the way larger firms can.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2013
But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. He makes his own decisions," I hedged.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2012
Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 5, 2013
Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Identifying even small successes out of a larger operational failure can be the most important way to improve performance in the future. Redundancy. Department of Defense now uses challenges to develop better weapons systems.
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