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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Strategic investments are critical to future business success. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. The organization currently depends on these investments for success.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

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What Executives Don't Understand About Big Data

Harvard Business Review

A commitment to a desired business outcome is the critical success factor. Big Data should be neither servant nor master; properly managed, it becomes a new medium for shaping how people and their technologies interact. "All of the above" is exactly the wrong answer. In a new era of Watson, Windows and Web 2.0

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

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Marissa Mayer Is No Fool

Harvard Business Review

Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor? In fairness, critics such as Virgin's Richard Branson are not wrong when they assert the cultural issues here are arguably as much a matter of trust than facilitating collaboration. That should be a leader's prerogative.