Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And

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Christensen Education Discount Class 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

See also Rick Goings’s commitment at Tupperware Brands to increasing women’s economic empowerment in emerging economies as well as mature ones. Witness the shift that is taking place in the global conversation about artificial intelligence and other advanced digital technologies.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Numerous funding models exist for internal consulting. Measure success.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. For example, a senior executive in a traditional financial services organization recognized that the organization needed to embrace new technologies in order to engage with Millennials.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

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