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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Benchmarking and adopting best practices (a veiled reference to everyone’s favorite punching bag, In Search of Excellence ). Aggressive outsourcing and partnering to improve efficiencies (perhaps a reference to “ The Origins of Strategy, published in 1989 by the granddaddy of strategy consulting, BCG founder Bruce Henderson).