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Strategic Priorities Identification and Analysis

Listed companies share their strategic objectives for investors’ and public consumption.  Websites, annual financial reports, and Form 10-K report are all critical resources to understand an organization, key offerings, competitive advantage, and market position. Research into the public documents of listed companies brings to light key data about these companies, their Strategies, and their Strategic […]

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Strategic Partnerships with Universities

University partnerships not only serve as sources for people and ideas but are also a vital means for corporations to uncover ways of engagement with the larger Innovation ecosystem and driver of Innovation economy. These ecosystems do not merely comprise of universities and companies rather they have a whole Innovation community that includes government entities, […]

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Strategic Priorities

Almost every organization strategizes in the hope that it will lead to successful outcomes set by the management.  In several cases, strategies fail or are not as successful as they were hoped to be.  Strategy is innately complicated, explaining it necessitates intricacy, however executing it demands simplicity.  Strategies should essentially be simple enough, for leaders […]

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Business Model Diversification

Strategic objectives of all businesses are to propel growth and performance, while simultaneously creating value for customers. While it is customary for managers to emphasize financial performance, effective managers pursue new opportunities in order to create added value. Business Model Diversification allows creation of value, if managed astutely, and can aid managers enhance performance and […]

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Digital Maturity Strategy

Go digital or go home.  To survive in the Digital Age, organizations must pursue Digital Transformation to not only support strategies and reach customers, but also to modernize and achieve excellence in their internal operations and processes.  The pursuit of Digital Maturity is quickly becoming a necessity. Yet, most organizations are unable to properly strategize […]

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Achieving Digital Maturity

Digital Transformation is a matter of survival now for all organizations particularly businesses. Altering organizations to cater to the progressively digital market environments and gaining benefit of the digital technologies to enhance operations are vital objectives for virtually every modern-day business. Digital Transformation is typically more difficult than any Change or Transformation program that an […]

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Core Competence Model

With ubiquitous Disruption threatening the technology infrastructure and Operating Models of organizations on a consistent basis, it’s an unrelenting challenge for senior leadership to create an enterprise proficient in introducing offerings in line with customers’ requirements and of desirable utility.  This can only be possible by developing competencies compulsory to innovate premium-quality offerings that are […]

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Scenario Planning: Oxford Approach

Financial uncertainties, unpredictable national and international scenarios, environmental hazards, and technological breakthroughs have taken organizations by a surprise.  This has led many leaders to turn to Scenario Planning in order to come up with multiple possible scenarios—instead of planning and devising strategy for a single possible event.  Scenarios encompass plausible, but unpredictably important, situations and […]

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Structured Problem Solving: Modified A3

Solving problems, complex problems at that, involves not only good problem formulation but also a structured approach to complement it.  Structured Problem Solving is simply an iterative sequence of framing hypotheses and testing them via controlled experimentation, revamped for the intricacies of the world beyond the laboratory. Structured Problem Solving is a formal, logical, and […]

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5 Elements of a Problem Statement

Managing any organization can be described as a constant stream of problems that need to be managed and solved.  However, oftentimes, people like to immediately implement solutions without having spent the time and effort to truly understand and analyze the true nature of the problem at hand.  Thus, organizations end up spending a lot of […]

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