December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
1408 pages
33h 15m
English
book
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Technology and Strategy Collection (7 Books)
by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Clayton M. Christensen, Rita Gunther McGrath, Thomas H. Davenport
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Discovery-Driven Planning
by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan*
BUSINESS LORE IS FULL of stories about smart companies that incur huge losses when they enter unknown territory—new alliances, new markets, new products, new technologies. The Walt Disney Company’s 1992 foray into Europe with its theme park had accumulated losses of more than $1 billion by 1994. Zapmail, a fax product, cost Federal Express Corporation $600 million before it was dropped. Polaroid lost $200 million when it ventured into instant movies. Why do such efforts often defeat even experienced, smart companies? One obvious answer is that strategic ventures are inherently risky: The probability of failure simply comes with the territory. But many failures could be prevented ...
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