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Combining Scenarios and Real Options to Address Uncertainty in Strategy Formulation

The 21st century business environment has even become more turbulent and uncertain, and therefore unpredictable. Every firm deals with uncertainty in its lifecycle. Uncertainty impedes the ability of management to make strategic decisions. There are many sources of uncertainty, but the most important ones are related to the firm’s external environment and black swan events. […]

Identifying, Mapping, and Managing the Innovation Ecosystem at Corporate Level

The challenges and uncertainties of the 21st century have continued to change the basic concepts and practice of strategic management. The rapidly changing environment has created environmental uncertainty, which is a threat to strategic managers because it impairs their ability to develop long-range plans and make effective strategic decisions to keep the firm stable with […]

Successful Innovative Companies Exploit Complex Sources of Competitive Advantages

A company’s successful innovation outcome doesn’t necessarily result in successful commercialization. When the product progresses from idea generation to the development process into the marketplace is called innovation but can be an unsuccessful one. Kodak developed the Kodak Disc Camera, but it was not commercially successful. To generate profits from innovation your firm should be […]

Managing Unknown Unknowns in Innovation

The external environment of emerging and technology-based industries will tend to be more uncertain as the world moves further into the twenty-first century. Any changes in an innovation firm’s external environment that are driven by the forces of technology, economics, and other influences impede the ability of strategic managers to make strategic decisions to keep […]