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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas.

Execution 101
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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem?

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

Harvard Business Review

Opportunities may range from improving core operations to creating new lines of business — even in the same industry. This information on product returns, warranties, and customer complaints contained a wealth of information on consumer habits and preferences. Size the opportunities and threats. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Health Operations' How many are needed?