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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. My Australian friend explained that each of his five business unit presidents was using the Strategy Choice Cascade, and that all of them had gotten stuck in the same place.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Telecom and financial services are poised to lead the way, with respondents in these sectors planning to increase their AI tech spend by more than 15% a year — seven percentage points higher than the cross-industry average — in the next three years. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. stock exchanges. exchanges — and is that even a worthwhile objective?

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