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The Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change. Market leaders and cautious adopters proactively seek change; fast followers and laggards take a reactive approach. Organizational DNA. See accompanying chart.)

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

That is yet another manifestation of the widespread, artificial, and unhelpful attempt to distinguish between choices that are “strategic” and ones that are “executional” or “tactical.” Moreover, no meaningful How to Win choice exists outside the context of a particular Where to Play.