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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that. A sustainable competitive advantage is not found by creating minor advantages in product features.

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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

While 60% of drone usage currently relates to communications and media such as for film making and commercial photography, new higher-value applications are on their way, as drones have a significant advantage in terms of precision, convenience, and cost over more traditional solutions such as satellites and helicopters.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

And these factors have not stopped Western multinationals from succeeding in China in car manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, and even sectors where culture plays a key role, such as beer, coffee shops, fast food, and the film industry. failure to fully embed operations in China. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The next explanation is that Kodak mismanaged its investment in digital cameras, overshooting the market by trying to match performance of traditional film rather than embrace the simplicity of digital.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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The World Is More Complex than It Used to Be

Harvard Business Review

You used film to take pictures, got them developed in a photo shop, and mailed copies to relatives if you wanted to share them. AT&T was the only telephone operator in the United States; telephony was just one of many high-impact industries that were highly regulated and protected from competition. Consider 1980.

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What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, the Chinese frequently stole sensitive commercial data , such as intellectual property, to gain competitive advantages for their state-owned enterprises. The North Koreans lashed out against Sony Pictures to protest a not-quite-Oscar-worthy film that featured the dramatic death of Kim Jong-un.