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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. .” Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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

Harvard Business

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I worked with them for about 6 months basically as an associate producer doing different things, and then that translated into a job as a full-time producer at Inertia Films where I’m at today. So depending on your tax status, maybe you are an independent contractor so you can call it Garrett Films, or whatever you want to.

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Business Acumen in Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

Question: First of all, I want to thank you for all the great materials that you have developed and posted on the web. To some extent, it comes from talent. It is a function of business experience and "talent.". By far the best of these has to be your LOMS program and the emails you circulate. and hoping you notice them.).