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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The next explanation is that Kodak mismanaged its investment in digital cameras, overshooting the market by trying to match performance of traditional film rather than embrace the simplicity of digital.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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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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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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Business Acumen in Case Interviews

CaseInterview.com

To some extent, it comes from talent. It is a function of business experience and "talent.". Some people have this natural talent and are able to operate at this level without much practice -- so let's call Level 3 insights as being driven by talent and or experience. However, Level 3 is very hard to train for.