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The Impact Climate Change Will Have On Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

An expert interviewed for the study stated that sustainable healthcare practices and their alignment with global climate goals pose a challenge, but also present an opportunity for innovative design and operations. The post The Impact Climate Change Will Have On Healthcare first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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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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The Mindset Your Company Needs to Grow Organically

Harvard Business Review

Companies dedicate vast amounts of time, money, and effort to organic growth. The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. As a result, market research will show a small Total Addressable Market (TAM).

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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. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Still, that frustration is a natural part of agile innovation. Agile innovation is different.