Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Strategy Hypercompetition Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. One of the best ways to stand out in a corporate setting, even as someone with less work experience, is to develop unique knowledge that makes you a go-to resource for your colleagues and clients.

How To 8

How To Hypercompetition Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. Will every organization need all four types of employees to sustainably develop and grow their organizations?

Project 8

Project Management Diversity Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In such multiplayer games, players must collaborate to survive in a fast-changing environment with fierce competitors and incomplete or ambiguous information from which to base important decisions — that is, an environment not unlike many hypercompetitive global markets. Many skills are difficult to train and develop.

Team 10

Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold. None of their leaders developed effective transformation plans in time to halt the decline.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork. Industrial-age advantage was about understating costs or overstating benefits slightly harder and faster than the next guy. But in a tiny, fragile, crowded world, yesterday's paths to advantage might just be sources of dis advantage.

Incentives 15

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. So when they were rebuilding, it was easy for them to opt for basic oxygen furnaces, a technology developed in Europe in 1948 that reduced capital costs and process time, and improved labor productivity.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

Blue Ocean Strategy 250

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. They need to feel valuable and that they are being developed.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8