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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. One was that we thought companies should start to think, shall we say, as creatively about the ways they worked as they sometimes do about their products or services. DAVID: Yeah, I totally agree.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. They develop chipsets and license to manufacturers who then produce and sell.

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

Arguably one of humanity's most important inventions, "modern" management was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests. It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Canon standardized copy machines and components to reduce costs and sold its offerings through office-product dealers, appealing to people who wanted to own the machines outright. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies.

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? in a new way.