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Strategy in the Era |
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| Over the past 250 years, the pace of change has increased at an increasingly rapid rate. Few enterprises are able to offer lifetime employment anymore; not because they don��셳 want to, but because they usually don��셳 survive long enough. |
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Companies Learn and |
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| Most organisms behave like complex adaptive systems. As their parts sense and respond to conditions outside the system that constantly change, each part interacts with and influences the other parts in the system. Ultimately, this yields new patterns of behavior for the overall system. |
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Businesses Get a "Se |
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| Like animals, companies have always monitored changes in their environments. Historically, companies have moved slowly in response to changes. For example, if a retailer��셲 sales of red sweaters outpaced sales of green sweaters during the Christmas shopping season, the results would not be noticed until months later. By the time the retailer could react, the holiday season was over, and the insights might not be relevant to the following year. |
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Share the Wealth |
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| Because it is becoming increasingly challenging to protect intellectual property, we��셱e witnessing a complete reversal: Instead of protecting new ideas and proprietary systems, some developers are now making them available to customers, suppliers, and even competitors. |
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Hey What"s That |
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| It��셲 not the ��쐅iant sucking sound��� that Ross Perot predicted would signal the drain of millions of American jobs to Third World countries. It��셲 true that many U.S. workers in manufacturing industries have seen their jobs vanish, and that the U.S. workforce has been declining for more than three years. But the problem isn��셳 foreign competition with cheaper labor. |
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