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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Thinking like a software company starts with basic strategy questions: What do you do uniquely well and what do you know how to do that your competitors do not?