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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
But how did it hit on this winning strategy? IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools. The company also has a unique manufacturing strategy and business model. Quite the contrary.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.
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