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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

Only by fundamentally changing the way the organization works—through flattening hierarchies, speeding up decision making, helping employees develop needed skills, and successfully understanding both opportunities and threats in the environment—can an organization truly adapt to a digital world. Digital Maturity.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? Catch up here.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

While much has already been written about this challenge in the developed world, there are also some important lessons to be learned from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). They engage trusted, local influencers to build credibility. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters.

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Which Social Network Makes Your Customers Buy?

Harvard Business Review

They have marketing departments retaining outside social media consultants. They pay content marketing firms to write company blogs and produce YouTube videos. Yet I've never once heard the question: Is this social network actually the one where our prospects and customers are influenced to buy? They want to understand Twitter.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. In other words, their previous success meant that employees failed to challenge the once-successful strategy—that strategy was instead challenged by new market entrants.