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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 […]

Design and Management of The Transition State of Strategic Change

This blog article attempts to describe the complex transition phase of the old and weak 3-state strategic change model in terms of two elements of the new and strong strategic management model: strategy formulation and implementation: which incorporates the portfolio management framework to facilitate and provide clarity to the implementation process. Basically, organizations undergo two […]

How Established Firms Can Innovate Like Startups

Historically, startups and small business firms have been most successful in creating innovation in contrast to established firms. However, innovation by itself does not differentiate between small and large firms, and any company, therefore, irrespective of size, can innovate successfully. Not every established firm is a failure and not every start-up is successful. Technology is […]

Importance of Portfolio Management in Innovation

The primary purpose of a strategic management system is to maximize the overall performance of the firm. However, a survey of Fortune 500 companies revealed that poor implementation has been the primary cause of strategic failures. Over time, portfolio management has gradually entered the strategic management system to become an essential part of it to […]

Managing Innovation through Dual Planning Systems

One of the issues a firm’s corporate directional strategy faces is about deciding its orientation towards growth. When a firm chooses to grow internally, innovation becomes the key driver to achieve that growth. Growth-oriented companies incorporate some kind of technology to generate innovation, and through innovation, they create a competitive advantage. Therefore, innovation provides a […]

Strategic Role of Economic Profit (EP)

The economic profit (EP) matric is a powerful tool to value businesses, evaluate strategies, and measure and evaluate performance. It can also be used to generate wealth for owners of small businesses and large corporations. All firms small or large have a formal or informal strategy with a quest to create value, and therefore, the […]

Strategic Planning Vs. Strategic Management, and the Performance Gap

The terms strategic planning (strategy formulation) and strategic management are synonymous and interchangeably used in the business world; however, both have different meanings. Strategic management encompasses strategic planning-in other words, strategic planning is a subset of strategic management. Strategic management evolved from strategic planning. Fundamentally, strategic planning incorporates environmental scanning and strategy formulation whereas strategic […]

Importance of Strategic Management to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Strategic management has long been used successfully by large organizations to manage uncertainties and for better positioning to generate long-term growth and profitability. Due to the current and predicted environmental uncertainties, the practice of strategic management will become a need for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to keep them in equilibrium with their external environments […]

Competitive Advantage through Strategic Management

The concept of competitive advantage is embedded in the key components of the strategic management process. Strategic management is about gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage. From environmental scanning to vision statement to strategy formulation (strategic planning) and implementation—all these components have been successfully used to develop a competitive advantage. Business leaders make strategic decisions […]