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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

Innovation and intrapreneurship, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, reengineering, networked organizations — these were all conceptual handles that allowed executives to justify and develop new breakthrough practices. That’s why execution, or ‘making it happen,’ is so important.

Execution 101
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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

It seems that everyone these days is looking for a disruptive business model. But a business model is only one part of the equation. Equally important is the mental model behind the business model, as well as a measurement model for both. Tim Evans for HBR. All of these efforts failed.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them.

CIO 8
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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model.