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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. If you can’t identify a set of Capabilities and Management Systems that you currently have, or can reasonably build, to make the Where to Play and How to Win choice come to fruition, it is a fantasy, not a strategy.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

We were unable to capitalize on first mover advantage. But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy. Additionally, the national postal systems in India and Russia are distrusted, unreliable, and slow. Moving slowly meant losing markets and, later, having to buy our way back in.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Machinery, seeds and irrigation systems will likely witness a surge in demand. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later. .

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

Harvard Business Review

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Our results are weighted to reflect the relative economic importance of firms of different sizes. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

The Justice Department even tried to break it up in the late 1990s because it thought, and many agreed, that this was the only way to create competition in the operating systems market. The message is simple: beware of the siren song of network effects, winner-takes-all, and first mover advantages.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

The West defeated the Soviet Union not through warfare but by maintaining a superior economic system with higher technological standards. But America's edge is eroding fast as it struggles to keep first-mover advantage over its innovations.