Perspectives
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Industry Platforms
Reinventing Telecommunications: A Strategic Shift from Project to Product to Platform
In an era where technology and online businesses are booming, the telecommunications industry surprisingly faces a decline in global revenues. This trend stems from a failure to capitalize on the major investments in advanced network standards such as 4G and 5G....
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Being Strategic
Learn and understand the importance of strategic thinking for an individual, for a team dynamic and the organization.
What does ‘being strategic’ actually mean?
'Being strategic', in an organizational context, means three things:1. Thinking strategically2. Acting strategically3. Leading strategically Thinking StrategicallyThinking strategically is what most people associated with 'being strategic'. And it is true: cognition...
Doing Strategy For Real
Strategy is like sport: there are more pundits than players... People love talking about strategy, what it is and isn't, whether formulation or execution is more important, what the difference is between strategy and tactics, and so on. But how many people...
Just do it!
The most strategic business people I know, don't know anything about strategy. At least in terms of knowing about formal strategy theories and frameworks. They just do strategy: they watch and listen to everything going on in their market, think a lot about how to do...
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Strategy & More
What’s wrong with internal corporate venturing and how to fix it?
I've been consulting on intra-company venturing for over 20 years, through three economic cycles, and with dozens of Fortune 500 clients. Typically, ventures are started during a technology inflection, such as the original dot com, web 2.0 or SaaS; with the intention...
Lean Scaleup: solving the corporate business building dilemma
The basic premise of new business building is that the parent assets can be leveraged to support growth. That is what creates an advantage over greenfield startups. Leverageable assets include capital, salesforce, customer accounts, brand, technology, and business...
The Corporate Start-Up Sweet Spot
The corporate start-up sweet spot is where an internal venture provides corporate fit and stretch, in terms of markets, strategic learning, and business model. The rationale for corporate start-ups is that large companies have a resource advantage over...
How to turn disruption into an advantage
‘Disruption’ sounds painful, and it is when you are running a business that suddenly finds itself losing profit and market share to a competitor providing a product or service that makes yours look expensive or obsolete. Harvard Business School professor Clayton...
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Extra Reading
Get The Proportions Right To Make A Good Strategy
Making strategy requires three ingredients: 1. Domain — what the strategy is about, the problems and opportunities arising from the internal and external environment…
A Simple Explanation Of Strategy
Yesterday I attended a webinar on strategy from a leading HBR contributor and author of 5 books on the subject…
Strategy Is Content
Every strategy has the same basic propositional structure: — problem/opportunity + actions (to address problem/ opportunity)…
Review Of ‘The Crux’
Richard Rumelt, along with Roger Martin, is one of the leading academic-practitioner strategists in the world today…
Strategy Naturalization
Focus on being strategic and strategy will take care of itself Discussion about business strategy tends to focus on formualtion and execution…
What value is strategy during the crisis?
What should strategy managers be doing today? Is strategy relevant during the current crisis? What is strategy responsible for at this time of greatest organizational need?…
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Key Strategy Influencers
Roger Martin
Leading global strategy practitioner, inventor of the Playing to Win strategy cascade framework, and Integrative Thinking technique
Julia Sloan
Leading authority and teacher on Strategic Thinking
Yves Doz
Strategy guru, multinational strategy expert, author of Strategic Agility framework.