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Community Management

Lead Change Blog

A network organization is resilient and sustainable. One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. What works better is transforming your organization into a network organization. What’s the alternative?

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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. Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. 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.

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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'

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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. Initially, the marketing and network organizations, rather than cooperate, blamed one another for the findings. Size the opportunities and threats. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. How to Repair Your Data.