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On-Demand Manufacturing: The Perfect Way to Minimize Your Risk

Strategy Driven

The company can then determine its market acceptance and determine whether to proceed with manufacturing the item. Time to Market. Traditional manufacturing methods lead to a lag time between obtaining the initial quote to producing the item. All help to grow the business further.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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The Mindset Your Company Needs to Grow Organically

Harvard Business Review

For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. Too much is simply unpredictable. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization. They have changed their IT functions utilizing three related management interventions which, taken together, represent a fundamental re-invention of IT.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.