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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. But it didn’t work in the Where to Play of China.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

We were unable to capitalize on first mover advantage. But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy. Additionally, the national postal systems in India and Russia are distrusted, unreliable, and slow. Moving slowly meant losing markets and, later, having to buy our way back in.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa is clear that he wants to rebuild the economy and start fresh with foreign businesses. billion in 1997 to U.S.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). An organization with an offensive strategy radically adapts its portfolio of businesses, developing new business models to build a growth path that is more robust than before digitization.

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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. The message is simple: beware of the siren song of network effects, winner-takes-all, and first mover advantages.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

The West defeated the Soviet Union not through warfare but by maintaining a superior economic system with higher technological standards. s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress.