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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Currency Lessons: Think a Sinking Currency is Always Good For Manufacturers?

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"We are now planning for a month or three months at best unlike six months or a year earlier," said Shantanu Dasgupta, vice president for corporate affairs and strategy at Whirlpool of India, the local arm of Whirlpool Corp (WHR), the world''s largest home appliance maker. "A How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?"

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. ” Lack of the right strategy or vision (36% of respondents.). .”

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%). Again, we found differences among industries.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

Operations in a Connected World. But as some companies are realizing, placing the burden of recycling entirely on the consumer is not an effective strategy—especially when tossing something away seems like the easiest and most convenient option. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Is It Too Late for Sears to Save Itself?

Harvard Business

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. It signed up hip celebrities as endorsers, closed some stores, and adjusted its assortment strategy. don’t acquire another retailer and operate it separately) and to create more value for its core customers.