689 Articles found for subject: Strategy

“Let’s peel away the business academic interpretations and get at the root of thinking strategically.”

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Strategy

Are e-alliances a fad of the past? Speed and scale remain important in the post-New-Economy world, and alliances are often a faster and less capital-intensive way of gaining access to products, customers, and business capabilities than building them from scratch. But the stakes are now much higher, and the market is less forgiving. How can you raise the odds an alliance will succeed? To answer … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Ernst, Hugo Sarrazin, Jean-Hugues J. Monier, Tammy Halevy | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Strategy

Drawing on military wargames to simulate battlefield conditions, commercial wargaming simulates a set of business conditions and challenges executives to design successful strategies that are able to evolve with the changing nature of the environment. In a corporate war game, senior managers play their own company, a select group of their competitors and the marketplace. A control team plays all other entities that affect the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Amy Asin, George E. Thibault, John E. Treat | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Strategy

Corporate venturing has increased dramatically in recent years as companies seek to grab ever more profitable growth. This has raised two important questions. First, is it a management fad or lasting trend? And second, is it for everyone – or are some companies better positioned to create shareholder value through corporate venturing? Bain’s findings show corporate venturing to be far from a panacea. It’s just … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Bain & Company | Subject: Strategy

Article looks at the questions of how and why alliances are formed and the ingredients for their success or failure.

Content: Article | Authors: Dennis C. Rogers, Niren M. Vyas, William L. Shelburn | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Strategy

The idea that new businesses prosper best when separated from their corporate parents has now become conventional wisdom. Although new ventures do need space to develop, strict separation can prevent them from obtaining invaluable resources and rob their parents of the vitality they can generate. The solution? A balance of partitioning and integration.

Content: Article | Authors: Ansgar Richter, John Roberts, Jonathan D. Day, Paul Y. Mang | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Some time ago the new economy appropriated a term that summed up its irrational exuberance – “first-mover advantage.” E-business first movers, it was thought, could gain valuable advantages over the competition by pioneering technologies, being first-to-market, and building brand loyalty. Hindsight may be 20/20, but it’s still not clear what hindsight will say about the first movers in e-business. Gathered here are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: J.B. Bird | Source: Texas – The McCombs School of Business Magazine | Subject: Strategy

Start with the people who are closest to the customer, then alphabetize, organize, summarize, save time and tempers, finalize, publish, sign and celebrate.

Content: Article | Author: Bernard DeKoven | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Strategy

Strategic planning is more than playing golf at an exotic resort. Taken seriously, strategic planning and execution can make the difference between being a mediocre “me-too” company and a trailblazing category-killer. Talk about these items:
1. The corporate vision
2. Personal vision
3. Shared vision
4. Mapping current reality
5. Strategic priorities
6. Choice and execution
7. Celebrate your successes

Content: Article | Author: Ellen Schulz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Is it time to slow down the pace of global marketing?

Content: Article | Author: Isabelle Schuiling | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Strategy

Disparaged in the developed world, emerging-market conglomerates are here to stay, provided they adapt to their ever-changing environment. If they do adapt, what role are they likely to play?

Content: Article | Authors: Chipper Boulas, Ian Buchanan, Jorge H. Forteza, Lando Zappei, Zafer Achi | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, Strategy

The world’s most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you’ve got to make time for strategy.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Who should companies put in charge of their e-business operations? The answer, according to this special report by the EIU ebusiness forum, depends on where e-business sits in the corporate structure. Diplomacy is key if the company is attempting to integrate e-business into all operations; autocracy is feasible if the organisation has created a separate unit for e-business. Whatever the powers of the position, however, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Don Durfee | Source: The Economist | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy

This interesting article (written before the dot.com shakeout) shows some interesting fallacies of thought but also makes some interesting and useful observations and analyses. Discusses three types of coprorations: Godzillas, Titans and Bystanders. Lists the following as features critical to Godzilla companies: Clarity of Focus; The Primacy of the Customer; Zero-Based Organization; Location Irrelevance; Value Chain Shortcuts; Pointcast vs. Broadcast; The CEO as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kenichi Ohmae | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

How do you set long-term strategy in an economy that moves at the speed of the Net? Is there a difference between a “business strategy” and an “Internet strategy”? And who makes strategy these days? John D. Noble, vice president of corporate Internet strategy at Putnam Investments, is wrestling with those and other questions.

Content: Article | Author: Amy Wilson Sheldon | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

It’s in the headlines nearly every morning: the urge to merge. Each day heralds a new marriage between colossal companies – creating a merger- and-acquisition frenzy unrivaled in history.

Conventional wisdom explains these deals in terms of strategy, scale, and globalization – and stops there. We invited 10 influential thinkers and leaders to peel back the merger issue by answering three different questions: Will these … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Anna Muoio | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Priceline’s founder says there are exactly four ways to make money on-line.

Content: Article | Author: Jay Walker | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy

There are three “waves” of e-business, according to Gartner analyst and former Sun Microsystems CIO Dennis Wayson. And if you want to successfully implement e-business, you need to know which wave you’re in and what steps you should be taking to reach the next level.

Content: Article | Authors: Dennis Wayson, Loraine Lawson | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy

Those of us who have been thwarted in our efforts to find a copy of a just-released video at our local video store will be interested in research conducted by Wharton professor Gerard Cachon and Martin A. Lariviere from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Their studies suggest that using a revenue-sharing model can be a smarter way to do business – and provide enough … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Operations, Strategy

Strategy in digital business has become an increasingly significant component of Digital Business Service Provider (DBSP) offerings. Pure plays have and are becoming more experienced, and are serious competitors to the more traditional strategists. DBSP strategists take over where the traditional consultancy process lets go. They serve largely in the operational strategic role by taking the business idea to the step of design and architect … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: E. Robins | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subjects: Industry Specific, Strategy | Industry: Consulting