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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Kaplan and David P. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining.

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Stop Me Before I “Innovate” Again!

Harvard Business Review

That word is innovation, and it’s quickly losing whatever meaning it once had. Journal writer Dennis Berman begins by citing Kellogg CEO John Bryant, the respected head of a well-run company, who was describing one of its “innovations” for 2013. an innovation, then what isn’t an innovation? Pop-Tarts are all about.)

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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business Review

There’s no shortage of articles, books, and talks on the subject. If the erosion of a market requires a new business model, that’s change management. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. Maria Galybina/iStock. Change management is having its moment. Costs reduced? Productivity improved?

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Finance may be moving from a period without much competition into one of disruption, while technology is moving from a period of intense innovation into one of concentrated market power.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

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How to Use Uncertainty and Surprise for Breakthroughs

LDRLB

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. This initial surprise led to an even bigger one: the market for small-business-accounting software was ripe for the taking. Here’s the fundamental problem.