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Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
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Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Darrell K. Rigby, Vijay Govindarajan
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
2h 36m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CRAFTING A STRATEGY IN THE AGE OF GIANTS

Classic strategic concepts like the five forces, blue oceans, and core competencies are familiar, brilliant, and useful, but they aren’t the final word in competition. The rules of strategy have never been static and the ascent of the tech giants is reshaping them once again. As always, no approach is one-size-fits-all. For some companies, the answer will be to become bigger, broader, faster, and more like the tech monopolies. Others will need to remain focused deliberately, honing a few unmatchable capabilities, brands, or services. The four short pieces that follow will help you rethink your company’s strategy to compete and win among the giants.

THE OLD AND NEW RULES OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE ...

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