Corporate Strategy

Rapid rate of change is killing strategy
Rapid rate of change is killing strategy

Strategy, as we know it, is dead An article in Wall Street Journal announced, “strategy, as we know it, is dead” in the current economic environment. Executives, it reported, were…

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Adapt to market changes or fade away

Rendered obsolete if they don’t adapt to market changes fast enough Anyone in the business world knows that it’s currently experiencing a rapid rate of change. New companies spring up…

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Disruptive change is no longer the exception

Disruptive change is now the rule Disruptive change is no longer the the exception, it’s the rule. The entertainment, computing, mobile phones, book publishing and photography have all recently experienced…

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Corporate change under pressure
Massive change is coming – Disruption is on its way

Massive disruption is coming, and the only question is whether your company is going to cause it or fall victim to it. Incremental change does not disrupt an industry but radical…

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Caught in a time warp
Caught in a time warp – Adapt quickly to changes

Ensure that the organization is agile, that it can adapt quickly to changes in the marketplace Despite recession, currency crises, and tremors of financial instability, the pace of disruption is…

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Communicate the vision through storytelling
Communicate the vision through storytelling

Storytelling is the ability to share a vision Martin Luther King will forever be associated with the vision of America achieving its aim of a “more perfect union”. King’s speech…

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Better be the first to disrupt

Better be the first to disrupt. Why? Because it’s probably going to happen anyway and it’s much more profitable to be the disruptor. Instagram versus Kodak Let’s start with the most…

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Change is inevitable and require companies to re-invent themselves

Change is inevitable Massive transformation is sweeping across many different industries. Unfortunately to many companies are stuck in the jar. The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings…

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Better have a social media risk management plan
No company can nowadays afford to sit on their laurels

Germany’s biggest drugstore chain (high-street chemist) – Schlecker – has filed for bankruptcy. A company with seven thousand shops and thirty thousand employees. What went wrong? Had the competitive landscape…

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Keeping pace with future change

We live in an era of profound and accelerating disruption. The world is moving so fast nowadays that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by…

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Customers create most new product and service ideas

Is harvesting new products and services ideas from customers going to be the norm in the future A study from The Economist Intelligence Unit shows that many senior executives expect customers…

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HMV disruptive change - Adapting too late to the change
Shaping strategy in a world of accelerating disruption

A world of accelerating disruption In just a few decades we have witnessed the transition from an industrial, nation based, resource-orientated economy to a global, networked, knowledge-intensive economy. Organizations, and…

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