Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Business Model 70

Business Model Review Books Innovation 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Innovators have to deal with particularly insidious lies — things that people say that they believe are true, but actually aren't. Innovators working on new ideas often show early versions to customers to assess "purchase intent." That is, something that is just good enough to start the in-market testing process.

Innovation 16

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's Innovation Imperative. It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation. As Martin wrote, "This comes from a poor innovation record. The following graph plots the resulting innovation index for Australia, the U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Meanwhile Harvard Business Review has been focused on this issue, with our most recent cover story titled "How to fix capitalism — and unleash a wave of innovation and growth". This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2020

Political innovation activists Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter outline reforms that could increase competition and accountability in American politics.

Politics 10

Politics Porter System Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Which of these are impeding growth (or representing untapped markets)? But trampolines propel things forward.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market.

Company 16

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market.

Company 16

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

Innovation 10

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it.

Management 22

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 22

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

“What matters is the pace of innovation — that is the fundamental determinant of competitiveness.” Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy?

Strategy 15

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

Levitt 15

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Firms often use an innovative technology or a new business model to seize the new opportunity and they typically disrupt someone else’s business in the process. So this view is often associated with innovation or disruption. When Innovation Is Strategy. Innovation Strategy'

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet' Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." This is another Christensen observation, albeit a lot less famous than the one about disruptive innovation.

Strategy 12

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. The recent failures of mass market retailers Sears and J.C. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy' If it ain’t broke, break it.

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. In urban areas, the retail grocery market was dominated by corner store grocers who delivered food to within walking distance of customer homes.

Technology 16

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

Banking 18

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. This new breed of leaders not only rejects the idea that financial market demands are more important than stakeholders' needs but also demonstrates that companies can excel at meeting both.

Company 14

Company Long-term Porter CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The value is exempt from the ebb and flow of the market. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream. This kind of deep supply chain work fits the model of "shared value" creation that strategy guru Michael Porter laid out in HBR earlier this year.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

By contrast, disruptors like Tesla (or, for that matter, Google ) gain a new advantage by understanding, leveraging, and ultimately staking a claim in the broader ecosystem, drawing heavily on innovation from outside traditional industry boundaries. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

Automotive 12

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. We do support other applications for low-cost housing — bringing these dwellings back to the industrialized world for hurricane relief, for example, would be a reverse innovation success story.

Suri 15

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. Merchants and traders played the game of incremental innovation by focusing on efficiency and optimization. What’s the lesson for entrepreneurs and innovators today?

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept.

Media 11

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

Strategy 16

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch. CEO Steve Stoute explained why marketers should worry less about traditional demographics and pay attention to hip-hop culture.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. The market has a way of taking care of that. Does pursuing a social purpose require something unique to describe and structure your business?

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Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. This theory states that success is dependent on positioning your business in a profitable market, where it will have or can gain a competitive advantage. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 13