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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. and the U.K.

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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. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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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

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency.

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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. He explains: "Static efficiency refers to how effective any set of social and economic arrangements is in generating the maximum output of goods and service for any current level of inputs, using existing technologies.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

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