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What Your Company Can Learn from Supercompetitors

Traditionally, industry-leading companies used to be large conglomerates that gained their dominant competitive advantage through an accumulation of assets and positions, which gave them unbeatable economies of scale. Thanks to the diversity of their portfolios, these conglomerates had a wide reach, allowing them to pursue short-term profitability and growth wherever they could find it. Today, […]

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Jugaad Innovation: Lessons for the West

Innovation in the West has become too rigid, insular and bloated to remain effective, according to Judge Business School’s Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja. During the recent economic downturn, in particular, once favoured structured approaches to innovation have failed where agility and differentiation were required. These approaches do not seem to address the […]

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