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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? To maintain strategic alignment, a company’s people, culture, structure and processes have to flex and change as the strategy itself shifts.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Strategy' An HBR Insight Center.

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Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.

Harvard Business Review

There''s much more in this article, from how the Medium team built its strategy from the ground up to how it established key management tenets that revolve around what the company needs to accomplish in order to serve its core purpose. You Don''t Actually Watch Foreign Films. So does it work? Dark dramas featuring a strong female lead."

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.