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Flexible Development and Management Strategies: Intimately Knowing Your Team and Product Portfolio

Innovation Excellence

Product portfolio management (PPM) is used to manage resource allocation, identify areas for improvement, and keep products and services aligned with an organization’s broader vision and strategy (Lynn, 2020). This vantage point allows teams and leaders to make informed strategic decisions for the organization as a whole.

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Ford's Impressive Sustainability Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. It's not easy, but it can drive real innovation and new thinking, as well as build customer loyalty that maintains or grows market share. (I

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Corporations Will Never Solve Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

A recent UK report argued against the efficacy of voluntary measures, but the presence of 400 ppm CO 2 in the atmosphere should be enough to prove the point. Now we are left nearly empty-handed, with no meaningful regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, and no market-based mechanisms to control them, either.

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