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June 16, 2014

Portuguese edition of End of Competitive Advantage now available

Just in time for the World Cup in Brazil, I’m delighted to be able to say that the Portuguese-language edition of The End of Competitive Advantage is now available for purchase.  You can get to… Read more »

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May 27, 2014

Breakfast session June 4th with WOBI on Innovation

I’m very much looking forward to a breakfast session next week that I’ll be running as part of a partnership between Columbia Business School and WOBI in New York. We’ll be talking about how you can… Read more »

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May 15, 2014

Sustainable advantage, Transient Advantage and Organizational Change

In an insightful blog that is part of a series HBR is running on the intersection between Strategy and Innovation, editor Sarah Cliffe interviews colleague Don Sull, who argues that you can think of the… Read more »

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April 22, 2014

What do The Weather Channel, Apple’s iPod and future banking services all have in common?

These players often created entire categories of new consumption – from just-in-time and on demand weather updates, to a transformative way to listen to your own content whenever you felt like it to new kinds… Read more »

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March 20, 2014

Postponed – CBS Sunday Morning Show March 23 9am with Rita

CBS Correspondent Martha Teichner and I had a stimulating conversation about disruption that will be part of CBS “Sunday Morning’s” annual Money program.  We chatted about businesses that have become vulnerable to disruption and why it… Read more »

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February 22, 2014

Davos CEO Session: Organizational Agility and Learning in a Complex World

The World Economic Forum has introduced a well-received innovation in their program lineup, what they call the CEO Series.  These feature CEO’s as panelists and the audience consists of only CEO’s and similarly high-level folks… Read more »

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February 22, 2014

Davos session: Future of International e-tailing

While in Davos, a panel on the future of international e-retailing was convened with representative CEO’s from major international logistics, supply chain and retail providers.  The panel opened with the question of why international e-retailing… Read more »

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February 15, 2014

Is your firm ready for a world of transient advantage? Please contribute to a new benchmark devised by Rita McGrath

I’ve been working with Richard Chaplin, Founder of the Managing Partners’ Forum, on an MPF survey that measures the extent to which different sectors are ready for a world of transient competitive advantage. The survey… Read more »

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January 27, 2014

MarketDrivenGrowth: Driving Organic Growth and Innovation

Bob Cooper, Academic Director and Senior Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management reviews The End of Competitive Advantage (“fabulous book”) and discusses the five internal barriers that leads to growth stagnation here.

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January 27, 2014

Inc.: Is It Easy for Your Customers to Leave You?

You’ve heard of barriers to entry, but it’s barriers to exit that determine the strength of your business model, according to Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School. What’s an exit barrier? Simply put,… Read more »

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January 14, 2014

Heading to the World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos

Next week, the World Economic Forum will be having its annual meeting in snowy Davos, Switzerland.  I’m honored to be one of the subject matter experts they have invited to moderate sessions, offer challenges and… Read more »

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December 11, 2013

Talk about industries competing with industries: PC’s versus weddings

Heard an interesting story on the radio the other day.  An author (wish I wrote down his name) was being interviewed about a project he’s working on that involves understanding the financial lives of Americans. … Read more »

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