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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Rather than worrying about car companies copying their technology, Tesla now hopes they will do so, in order to expand the overall market for electric vehicles. A Tesla vehicle is quite literally more valuable than the sum of the parts, even when the value of the patented technology is included. Innovation Tech industry Technology'

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program. Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good. These steps are outlined in Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. The workers standing near him applauded. Entering the IP Badlands.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Other women described working in new areas outside their current expertise, allowing them to learn entirely new product areas or skills as part of their leadership growth.

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Facebook Changes Upend Advertiser and Agency Models

Harvard Business Review

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. It presents a tremendous opportunity for advertisers to create and amplify positive engagements consumers are having with their products, or the lifestyles those products represent.