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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas. They have sustained tremendous improvement in productivity, effectiveness, and attentiveness to opportunities. They’ve been through the paradigm shift.

Execution 101
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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions. This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Meanwhile, the organization’s mission aspirations grew bolder. Adapting to change.

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Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

Harvard Business Review

For example, insurance companies can use big data to improve underwriting performance now, while over the longer term they can use it to serve formerly unprofitable customers and ultimately even develop entirely new risk-based businesses. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. Can You Live Without a Data Scientist? How to Repair Your Data.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Each step in this process leads to another.