Developing Strategy
Strategic Priorities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Can you spot a good set of strategic priorities? Try our interactive tool to test your skill.
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Turning Strategy Into Results
How can leaders translate strategic complexity into simple and flexible guidelines that get results?
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How to Recognize a Strategic Priority When You See One
Financial reports provide critical insights into a company’s strategy — if you know where to look.
Collaboration
Five Rules for Managing Large, Complex Projects
Research reveals five lessons that can help executives manage big, complex projects more effectively.
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What CEOs Get Wrong About Vision and How to Get It Right
A vision commonly held throughout the organization must begin with the leader’s image of a credible, optimal future state.
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The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated
When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
Business Models
Building a Winning Business Model Portfolio
Business model diversification requires careful assessments of each model’s strategic contributions.
Collaboration
Mastering the Make-in-India Challenge
Some multinationals have a winning India strategy that involves both local and global value chains.
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What You Need to Know Before Starting a Platform Business
There’s probably never been a better time for platform businesses. But they aren’t easy to launch.
Disruption
The Best Response to Digital Disruption
Companies with bold strategies in response to digitization will come out as winners.
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Harnessing the Secret Structure of Innovation
Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.
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The Flare and Focus of Successful Futurists
Forecasting is recognizing how current patterns may impact the future — and it’s a learnable skill.
Collaboration
Embracing a Strategic Paradox
If handled well, conflicting demands in a business can be sources of creativity and opportunity.
Collaboration
Protect Your Project From Escalating Doubts
Projects can lose momentum if stakeholders grow skeptical. Here’s how to avert a ‘cycle of doubt.’
Business Models
Free Webinar: Building a Business Creation Engine
Free on-demand webinar with MIT SMR authors of “The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation.”
Executing Strategy
Competing Through Joint Innovation
The Chinese telecom company Huawei has used strategic partnerships to gain ground in Europe.
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Engaging With Startups in Emerging Markets
Partnering with emerging-market startups is easier if four key factors can be addressed.
Developing Strategy
Warding Off the Threat of Disruption
Foresight and timing are crucial elements in responding to disruption.
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Effective Analytics Strategies Emphasize the Human Element
Developing and deploying successful analytics technologies means recognizing that the human factor is paramount.
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The Science of Winning in Banking: Competing on Analytics
Many financial firms in South Africa are investing in analytics technologies and human capital to build capabilities that strengthen customer relationships and set the stage for long-term growth through data-driven services.