Strategy is fashionable again!
“Since January (2011), the Financial Times has reported that more than 30 organizations — from Albertis, the Spanish airports operator, to Zenergy Power, the superconductor developer — are carrying out, will carry out or have carried out some sort of “strategy review” Andrew Hill, Financial Times , 14 June 2011 It’s official! Strategy is fashionable again! For the last ten-plus years, “strategy” was a four-letter word. Everyone was focused on execution (Bossidy and Charan), on business...
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India will become a major factor in your value chain over the next two years either as a large market, important supplier, source of competition, valuable partner, or role model. Regardless of the size of your firm or the industry in which you compete, you will be impacted by India. Are you prepared with an India strategy or will you be taken by surprise? Additional Info at info@strategicleverage.com Seminar Overview India has one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world and has emerged as an important global player in...
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Strategic Leverage™: Getting Traction in Today’s Marketplace simplify planning. These tools enable you to quickly identify the two or three issues critical to your business’s success. Net result: you and your team focus on the things that really matter. You identify and eliminate activities and projects that divert precious people, time, and money. You go from planning to executing faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. Additional Info at info@strategicleverage.com Seminar Overview Do you know where you have real traction...
read moreBusiness Strategies and IT Choices
Executives today are keenly aware that information technology (IT) is critical to business success. However, they lack tools and processes to help them link their business strategies to key IT decisions such as, “How much should we spend on IT? Why? Where should we focus our IT investments? How much centralization should we have and in which areas?” Over the past three years I have been researching this issue, through my teaching at Chicago Booth and my own research. This blog shares what I have learned and presents frameworks and...
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For the past twenty years Dr. Lele has been privileged to present the Strategic Leverage framework to several thousand MBA students and executives worldwide. Based on these discussions and on recent research in strategic thinking, Dr. Lele is preparing a major revision of his book, Creating Strategic Leverage (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992). This blog presents his latest thinking regarding the fundamental notion of leverage, how to quantify leverage and relate it to financial measures, how major changes such as the Internet, the...
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