Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. What is the business’s value proposition and it sources of competitive advantage?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

(If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer). How seriously do you take this competitive threat? Who is in charge of rethinking your company’s entire business model and operations? EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Strategy 50

Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

” Rather, this approach recognizes a fundamental shift in the sources of value creation and competitive advantage toward software. Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

That was a distinction with an operational and organizational difference. But the real question confronting leaderships is how much can language alter thoughts and influence behaviors? Linguistics should be a source of design insight and competitive advantage. Communication Innovation Leadership' This may be true.

Ulrich 9

Ulrich Kaizen Innovation Competitive Advantage 9

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

APRIL 27, 2015

For a product or service to be counted as innovative at Whirlpool, it must be unique and compelling to the consumer, create a competitive advantage, sit on a migration path that can yield further innovations, and provide consumers with more value than anything else in the market. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

The team is the company’s raw DNA, the purpose their religion, and culture their unique way of operating based on common principles, norms, and values. In an authentic and strong culture this applies not only to the leadership team, but every single employee. Organizational culture Leadership Developing employees'

Company 8

Company Self-aware Long-term Mission Statement 8