Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. Netflix was thus able to develop its internationalization capabilities in locations where the challenges of “foreignness” were less acute. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. Netflix was thus able to develop its internationalization capabilities in locations where the challenges of “foreignness” were less acute. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Machine learning challenges have significantly increased in complexity since then and it takes years of training and experience to develop a well-honed intuition that can sniff these problems out. Each practice serves to influence the other. Researchers will be familiar with this phenomenon, known as Simpson’s paradox.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. What had I missed? So what has my surfing taught me?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate).

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