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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

In the first, it centers on compliance to a pre-determined plan, in the latter on decentralized initiative taking and experimentation. Yet, it tried to sell its digital cameras using the same business model as its film-based cameras – by aiming to make high margins on instant film sales. Tyranny of practicality.

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The Secret to Alibaba’s Culture Is Jack Ma’s Apartment

Harvard Business Review

Jack Ma’s First Day Speech in Alibaba Apartment from Taluswood Films on Vimeo. Preserving culture while scaling is difficult in general, but for Alibaba the task was complicated by its decentralized approach to decision-making, where separate businesses are largely allowed to chart their own course.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

This media powerhouse offers creative and production services as well as cutting-edge post-production services to such films as Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. Reliance MediaWorks' global creative network is highly decentralized, allowing each design studio head in the U.S.

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Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works

Harvard Business Review

home marketers (Fox, HBO), cable and satellite services (Comcast, DirectTV), video syndicators (PMI, TVS), film libraries and archives (Eastman House, Getty Images), and talent agencies (WME, CAA, ICM), each with its own contracts and accounting systems. Consumers can view films on their mobile devices in exchange for bitcoin.