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Tilt, 11. Tilting Your Strategy and Organization
Dawar, NirajBook Chapter HBS-0012BC-EMarketingIn Chapter 11, Tilting Your Strategy and Organization (14 pages), the author explains three underlying principles of creating downstream competitive advantage. First, opportunities for new strategies lie downstream with the marketplace and customer, not within the company. Second, strategy can create both sustainable and accumulative competitive advantage. Third, while some capabilities can be outsourced, such manufacturing and delivery, the cust...Starting at €8.20
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Chapter 11: Writing about Problem-Diagnosis Scenarios
Ellet, WilliamBook Chapter HBS-1031BC-EThis chapter describes the four elements necessary to organize a problem-diagnosis scenario essay, the most important of which is providing a clear definition of the problem. Chapter 6 of this book, which introduces how to analyse a problem-diagnosis scenario, is complementary and should be used along with this chapter.Starting at €8.20
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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, 11. Avoid Red Ocean Traps
Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, Renee A.Book Chapter HBS-0031BC-EStrategyThe global phenomenon that has sold 3.5 million copies is published in a record-breaking 43 languages and is a bestseller across five continents--now updated and expanded with new content. This global bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Now updated with fresh content from the authors, "Blue Ocean Strategy" argues that cutthroat com...Starting at €8.20
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, 11. The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-1115BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn this classic bestseller--one of the most influential business books of all time--innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right--yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why mosStarting at €8.20
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Being the Boss, with a New Preface: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, 11. Manage Through Your Daily Work
Hill, Linda A.; Lineback, KentBook Chapter HBS-1103BC-EAre you the boss you need to be? You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers. You're not alone. As Harvard Business SStarting at €8.20
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Forging Management 2.0
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2523BC-EIsolated initiatives and one-time projects are no substitute for a sustained, companywide campaign of breakthrough management innovation. This chapter is designed to help you sketch out a blueprint for making management innovation less of an aberration and more of a systematic capability. This chapter was originally published as chapter 11 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20
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Human Creativity: The Starting Point of Innovation
Harvard Business PressBook Chapter HBS-3462BC-EInnovation is the process that applies a creative idea to development of a useful product, service, process, business model, or practice. Creativity is, therefore, the starting point of innovation. But how does creativity work on an individual level? This chapter addresses a number of myths about creativity and provides tips for managing for greater individual creativity and increasing your own creativity. This chapter was originally published as...Starting at €8.20
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Businesspeople: The Key Role of Top Executives and Their Culture--Design-Driven Innovation Requires Inspiring and Invested Leaders
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3690BC-EIt is widely known that Steve Jobs has an intense devotion to radical innovation projects. The iPod--a design-driven innovation--was no exception. He set the direction and defined the requirements for a product for which there was no reference in the market. And look at the results. There is no radical innovation without inspiring leaders, and this chapter delves into the crucial role executives play in the success of design-driven innovation. Th...Starting at €8.20
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The Events and Trends that Have Shaped You: Who Is Generation Y, and What Does that Mean for Your Career
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-7812BC-EMany of our most powerful impressions are formed when we are teenagers. These impressions shape our assumptions not only about the world but also the role of work within it. As a generation, Gen Y's have been impacted by influential events like 9/11, and a technology environment that had most of them at computers since their earliest days. Also important are the cultural trends and family ties they grew up with, such as working mothers and a pro-...Starting at €8.20
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Tournaments 201: An Innovator's Guide to Getting Started
Terwiesch, Christian; Ulrich, Karl T.Book Chapter HBS-3447BC-EService and Operations ManagementEveryone wants their organizations to be more innovative. This desire, however, is hard to turn into action. Organizations tend to follow a similar pattern, improving performance by progressing along a common path. In this chapter, the authors introduce an innovation maturity model consisting of five levels--a path toward achieving innovation excellence--and outline next steps for both organizations just starting out and those that are more matur...Starting at €8.20