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The Basic Principles Of Strategy That Have Stayed True For 30 Years!

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We just came across an interesting piece from Andrew Campbell, Director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre and thought we would share with you its key thoughts. Campbell is the co-author of ‘Strategy for the Corporate Level: Where to Invest, What to Cut Back and How to Grow Organisations with Multiple Divisions’, and in his recent blog post he reminds us of some interesting truths about the foundations of solid strategy. Read more

Classic strategy tools: Porter’s Four Corners Model

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Firms don’t exist in isolation. It’s jungle out there and it’s every firm for themselves. This makes the strategists job more complicated. It’s not enough simply for the analyst to look at their own core competencies and attempt to maximize them. No, the corporate strategists job is also to out-maneuver their chief competitors. Here we look at one of the classic strategy tools used to figure out what your competitors’ likely next moves are.

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What we can learn from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman: an insider’s view

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Celebrated bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell tells us that 10,000 hours is the average amount of time you need to dedicate to a skill to become an expert. Well, Ben Casnocha has spent 10,000 hours working alongside LindedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and has recently written a long essay about what he has learned along the way. You can find this essay on his blog, and it’s well worth the read.  Read more

Strategy: A History | Authors at Google | Sir Lawrence Freedman

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Here is a fabulous Google Talks video with Sir Lawrence Freedman in which he discusses some of the most hard-hitting ideas from his book Strategy: A History. Google Talks describe this book as ‘sweeping and magisterial’ in their introduction to the talk, and we have to agree.

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5 Tips For Getting the Most Out of Big Data

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Big data. Two little words with such overwhelmingly large connotations. The phrase brings to mind billions if not trillions of data points. It suggests super-large corporations with whole teams and whole business modules devoted to reaping the benefits of the data driven approach. Not surprisingly then it can seem a little daunting to apply big data to your own business. But fear not, here we have 5 great tips about how to make sure that you start your adventure with big data on the right foot.

 

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