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Aggregation: Overcoming Differences: Strategies for Global Value Creation
Ghemawat, PankajBook Chapter HBS-2622BC-EStrategyThis chapter focuses on aggregation strategies that overcome some differences among countries by using various grouping devices to create greater economies of scale than country-by-country adaptation can provide. This chapter was originally published as chapter 5 of "Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter."Starting at €8.20
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Taking Action: Making Innovation Pay
Andrew, James P.; Sirkin, Harold L.; Butman, JohnBook Chapter HBS-2830BC-EStrategyIf you are committed to improving your company's payback from innovation, this chapter provides some specific and practical steps you can take to get started on the journey.Starting at €8.20
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Why Your Business Success Depends on Projects
Shenhar, Aaron J.; Dvir, DovBook Chapter HBS-2832BC-EThis chapter describes the reasons managers should focus on the opportunity that exists in project management and why they need a new framework and language for managing projects.Starting at €8.20
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Novelty: One Dimension of Adaptive Project Management
Shenhar, Aaron J.; Dvir, DovBook Chapter HBS-2835BC-EWith a new product, market research is less reliable and requirements are less clear. This chapter looks at the affects of project novelty on managerial behavior, marketing activities, and other tasks of project management.Starting at €8.20
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Technology: One Dimension of Adaptive Project Management
Shenhar, Aaron J.; Dvir, DovBook Chapter HBS-2838BC-EGreater technological uncertainty requires an extensive design effort, more testing, and later freezing of the design, and managers with greater technical savvy. This chapter examines the often tricky process of assessing a project's technology level.Starting at €8.20
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The Case of Nascent Pharmaceuticals: Overcoming Individual Immunities to Help a Team Succeed
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2913BC-EThere are several ways to combat individual and organizational immunity to change. This chapter examines the case of one woman, Cathy, whose biggest change challenge emerged out of a groupwide initiative with her whole marketing team. According to the authors, this collective approach may be the most effective way to deliver on facilitating individual adaptive change in the context of an intact group's desire to improve its collective performance...Starting at €8.20
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Unlocking Potential: Three Necessary Ingredients--A Recipe for Overcoming Your Immunity to Change
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2914BC-EIt turns out that some people are better suited to overcoming their immunities to change than others. Research suggests that the more people are connected to three key ingredients the more significant their changes will be. The gut provides the necessary, visceral desire to change that takes you beyond mere motivation; the head and heart must be engaged simultaneously to change your perspective; and the hand helps you take new action based on you...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Your Own: How to Lead So People Develop
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa LaskowBook Chapter HBS-2918BC-EChange dominates our work lives, our home lives, our politics, economics, and culture. Global thought leaders and practitioners alike constantly talk of change, but it's no surprise that less attention is paid to the feelings, anxieties, and motivations that spur passionate commitment NOT to change. This immunity to change is at the heart of individual and collective change prevention. Leaders and organizations that can master this force will dom...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Specific Growth Initiatives: A Discovery-Driven Approach
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3070BC-EOnce corporate leadership has defined what success should look like for the whole portfolio of new initiatives it will be pursuing, the next step is to flesh out discovery-driven plans for each of the major initiatives. This chapter shows you how to connect your growth strategy and internal processes to your specific strategic initiatives and provides an example of how to start a discovery-driven plan. This chapter is excerpted from "Discovery-Dr...Starting at €8.20
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Designing the Business Model Architecture: Executing Specific Growth Opportunities Using Discovery-Driven Planning
McGrath, Rita Gunther; MacMillan, Ian C.Book Chapter HBS-3071BC-EIn reality, your strategy is what projects you are working on and how you run them, not what's printed on an annual report or posted on your website. Thus, whether you are a CEO or someone else in the organization, you must have the right practices in place to manage strategic growth initiatives effectively. This chapter addresses how to design the fundamental business that will generate growth, including establishing the viability of a business,...Starting at €8.20