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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton. He is co-founder of the consulting firm The Innovator’s DNA, and he gives speeches, consults, and conducts training programs in the areas of innovation, change, and strategy.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? He is the dean of the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and an associate professor in strategy and entrepreneurship.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

After discovering a new material that achieves the same texture in a foot cream , they were able to shorten their time to market by finding and partnering with the leading researcher in developing this ingredient and launching their first hair product successfully. Follow Amir at @golan_amir.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Insight Center.

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

Harvard Business Review

The best business strategies assume the world is dynamic, not static. For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. Managers have come a long way in the past 20 years toward appreciating its role in their strategies.

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

Harvard Business Review

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. It’s killing the whole business. What can I do?” Insight Center. Competing in the Future. So, take the initiative.

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. In short, strategic IT leadership in a high-speed world is about mixing fast and slow. Move Beyond Enterprise IT to an API Strategy. It''s C-Suite Problem.