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The Impact Climate Change Will Have On Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

This is a very long-term trend with hard-to-predict consequences.” 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.

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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

Outsourcing is a popular term these days. There are many benefits to outsourcing your presentation, including more time and money! Outsourced manufacturing companies can provide solutions with short-term projects and long-term engagements depending on your business needs. Labor Costs.

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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? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Resistance from the Supplier.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

On the other hand, a highly differentiated offering is no longer a guarantee of long-term value creation. Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Xiaomi’s phones are not technologically disruptive in hardware terms, but they are revolutionary in customer experience terms; customers come to expect and appreciate their weekly OS updates. Again, this is true disruption (although not particularly successful outside of China so far).

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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. Many business people, especially if they have been trained in microeconomics, think in terms of "comparative statics" rather than dynamics. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.