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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’. SD : What does it mean to have a ‘right to win?’.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of incumbents are being compelled to adopt these technologies to stay competitive, even as cost and productivity pressures become acute. billion.

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China’s Growth: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Let’s first consider the productivity of capital and labor. What economists call “total-factor productivity” (TFP) measures how much output has been raised from those inputs of units of capital and workers. But after this initial boost, their productivity increases slowed down. by the end of that period.

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Say “No” to Innovation-in-General

Harvard Business Review

For over an hour, the panel discussed all of the innovative projects they’d worked on — spanning projects from Google Fiber to ad bidding technologies at Facebook. It’s the continuous technological innovations that will exploit your fixed asset base. It’s a wide variety of things.

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Business Software

Strategy Driven

However, one of the least considered points that many business owners overlook is the way they utilise technology. Despite Google Docs being a free-to-use cloud application, many people fail to realise the full potential of a cloud-based office productivity suite: collaboration. Fixing the Issue With Software.