Post-Recession Ways of Thinking Ahead in Business

Identifying Opportunities & Mobilizing Knowledge Resources: Strategic planning and investment for competitiveness     Creating actionable and achievable plans     Providing ongoing analysis and benchmarking     Aligning Incentives and Investments     Bridging Sustainability and Economic Development: New policies for a changing world     Enterprise Design Coordination - Adaptive Business Processes and Workflows     Dynamic Resource Management     Intelligent Business Decision Support     Event-Driven Planning and Scheduling     Leadership refocused with new strategy and cohesive vision     Strategic plans created for the global marketplace     Supply chains streamlined     Products redefined     New markets targeted     Cost-saving measures developed     Silos leveled & Teams aligned

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Strategic Innovation - The AVAC framework (Activities, Value, Appropriability, and Change)

In his book Strategic Innovation (Routledge, 2009), professor Allan Afuah provides us with a comprehensive strategic framework for assessing the profitability potential of a strategy or product.- the value of "new game" strategies -  in the face of rapid technological change and increasing globalization. It's not enough to create value in new and different ways, he says. Nor is it sufficient to merely capture value today. To compete and win, firms may need to rewrite the rules of the game altogether, overturning existing ways of both creating and appropriating value.  The most important thing, he stresses, is that a firm pursue the right new game strategy...