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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

Twenty-five years ago, management meant control. Managers put in controls, handed workers specifications, and established formal structures that ensured that people did what they were told. Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships.

Execution 101
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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

” We are in the midst of a massive migration in business models, from managing assets and delivering services to creating technologies and orchestrating networks. VW thinks of itself as a car manufacturer that uses technology. Tesla, on the other hand, thinks of itself as a technology company that manufactures cars.

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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

These new technologies allow anyone to connect to anyone and everyone, at any time — and there are already signs that the relationships we have with ourselves, with each other, and with our institutions are changing in response. Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks. Markets: From Products to Platforms.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores.

CIO 8
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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions. This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Competing nations have also been expanding their space exploration efforts. Adapting to change.

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Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

Harvard Business Review

In a recent Harvard Business Review article we explore how companies require three mutually supportive capabilities to fully exploit data and analytics: an ability to identify and manage multiple sources of data, the capacity to build advanced analytic models, and the critical management muscle to transform the organization.