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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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China’s Growth: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s. In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7%

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. It reflected the reality that a lot of GE’s growth will be coming from the developing world, and the leaders have to be there.

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