Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage. I saw some cool technology.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Strategy Hypercompetition Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Deloitte attributes this fall in part to rising competitive intensity, as a result of new technologies and lower entry barriers. So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite.

ROIC 8

ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

And, according to CTI’s recent research into women in science, engineering, and technology , women in these male-dominated industries feel they have to change the way they communicate, dress, and behave in meetings to survive in a testosterone-suffused environment.

EPS 8

EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

And for many people, the ability to do that is increasingly under assault , as daily rhythms are disrupted by the changing nature of work and always-on technology. Getting sufficient sleep is a need that every human on the planet shares. You''d have the advantage of a solid and accumulating knowledge base regarding what works.

Hypercompetition 8

Hypercompetition Influence Bottom-up Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Investors would fail at seeding tomorrow's disruptive companies and disruptive technologies. It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork. People would fail at making wealth maximizing decisions. Prices would fail at carrying meaningful information.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

All of this digital technology—be it apps, analytics, or social media tools—is tightly integrated to serve the customer via Nordstrom’s empowered employees. The retailer also has an app that alerts employees to the latest trends on Pinterest. Who wouldn’t want to work at a place like that?

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

We argue that even the most stable and conservative industries may be threatened by disruption — and the most dynamic and hypercompetitive industries also entail incremental growth opportunities that can be quantified and realistically assessed.

Project 8

Project Management Diversity Document 8