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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)

by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, James C. Collins, W. Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)

The Office of Strategy Management

by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

MOST COMPANIES HAVE AMBITIOUS PLANS for growth. Few ever realize them. In their book Profit from the Core, Chris Zook and James Allen report that between 1988 and 1998, seven out of eight companies in a global sample of 1,854 large corporations failed to achieve profitable growth. That is, these companies were unable to deliver 5.5% annual real growth in revenues and earnings while earning their cost of capital (a rather modest hurdle). Yet 90% of the companies in the study had developed detailed strategic plans with much higher targets.

Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance? The gap arises, we believe, from a disconnect in most companies ...

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ISBN: 9781633694316