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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

The third and final nail on the coffin was that they didn’t read their market right – a fatal change management mistake. But many would say that Kodak failed because they didn’t foresee how quickly and completely digital cameras would take over the industry that depended on film sales. They were not agile enough.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

Today, in most mature markets, it’s more than 90 percent automated, yet it is still one of the most expensive and space-intensive sections of the factory. It will look different because we will have invented entirely new processes and designs for building cars requiring entirely new manufacturing techniques. Insight Center.