Strategy 3 min read Free

Do Great Companies Stay Great ?

Corporate profitability is remarkably persistent: strong businesses often retain their edge, while weak ones repeat familiar mistakes. Because turnarounds are difficult and industry economics matter, managers and investors should favor quality growth and resist overpaying for poor assets.
Strategy 2 min read Free

Learning from Family-Controlled Businesses

High-performing family-controlled businesses often outlast and outperform peers by managing for the long term. Their advantage rests on continuity, community, durable stakeholder connections, and governance that gives capable leaders the freedom and incentives to invest patiently.
Strategy 3 min read Free

Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy

Innovation can create extra-normal profits, but firms often capture only a small share of the value they generate. Appropriability explains why patents, trade secrets, and early-mover advantages provide temporary gains that imitation and diffusion steadily erode.
Operations 4 min read Free

When Sales and Marketing Align: Impact on Performance

Sales and marketing pursue the same revenue engine from different horizons: one emphasizes quotas and customer problems, the other relationships and profitability. Aligning incentives, language, lead handling, and field feedback turns predictable conflict into stronger performance.
Strategy 3 min read Free

The Link Between Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

Corporate purpose alone does not predict superior results. Performance improves when employees believe in a goal beyond profit and management makes the direction clear, with the strongest link appearing among middle managers and professional staff.
Product Management 3 min read Free

A Model to Identify Solutions to Legacy Systems Increasing Maintenance Costs

Rising maintenance costs are only one sign of a legacy system. A structured assessment connects business criticality with technical, architectural, and organizational weaknesses, helping senior management choose long-term solutions grounded in both operational need and system condition.
Product Management 5 min read Free

Big Data for Big Business? A Taxonomy of Data-Driven Business Models used by Startups

Data becomes a business resource only when it creates value, not when it is merely collected or analyzed. A six-dimensional taxonomy connects data sources and activities to value propositions, customers, revenue, and costs so managers can compare startup models.
Strategy 3 min read Free

Schumpeter’s Ghost: Is Hypercompetition Making the Best of Times Shorter?

Sustained advantage is becoming shorter across more than technology industries, supporting a view of competition as continual disequilibrium. Strategy therefore shifts from defending one durable position to creating and linking successive short-term advantages before rivals erode them.

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