Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Huge retailers such as Walmart and Target also use scale to keep their purchasing costs down and their prices competitive. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation.

Porter 13

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Could lean manufacturing have a similar positive impact on jobs in the developing world? Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. There is also a great opportunity for adding talent leverage via outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and other contract opportunities that provide cost savings and scale.

Real Estate 303

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 303

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. Studying the book market then led Bezos to locate his company near some of the major book distributors.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

The trend toward globally connected markets will become stronger. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Leaders who can make globalization work in their favor will have a huge competitive advantage. Thinking globally.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win — or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

As the technology develops, GE could revamp this and other plants into general printer farms supplying all of its manufacturing divisions. Most of their sales are now overseas, but the individual businesses aren’t big enough to justify dedicated factories in Europe and Asia to better serve these markets.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

” Rather, this approach recognizes a fundamental shift in the sources of value creation and competitive advantage toward software. When modular in design, they adapt easily for different markets and can evolve over time. It purchased Cruise Automation, a startup developing self-driving software, for over $1 billion.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

This is about mission, not marketing. Over 30 years, he shaped a large part of its people development program, and taught me the framework of “common values and common standards.” Or will you create go further, and only promote the people who develop others? What calling does your business serve? Lead by example.

Company 8

Company Self-aware Long-term Mission Statement 8