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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Apple changed the nature of a smartphone from a corporate to a consumer device, and RIM has failed to reinvent itself accordingly. Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

This requirement is in their very DNA or, better, the code we programmed into them when we invented them; seeing as how that was close to 1,000 years ago, corporations have had a pretty long and successful run as the dominant business entity. Uber, as we’ve seen, means to be the creative destroyer of the current taxi industry.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool. To truly shift the needle, however, we need a new wave of TBL innovation and deployment.

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