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Best 13 Software for Managing Your Strategic Portfolio in 2025: Trending Tools for Smarter Business Decisions

Epicflow

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Read further to learn what tools will help you execute your organizations strategy and drive business performance in 2025. What is Strategic Portfolio Management Software?

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Book Review of “The New How” (Business Strategy Book)

Steve Shu Consulting

It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “ The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy ” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy development in general. through customized, experiential learning sessions.

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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

Penney introduced a rebranding strategy in 2012, which included eliminating discounts and introducing boutique-style stores. Over a 12 month period, the companys market capitalization dropped by more than US$5 billion. Starbucks has suffered from a complicated strategy in recent times.

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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. Companies like Idomoo present companies with an opportunity to tap into behavior change using massively-automated and personalized videos. Strategy Development. It’s an opportunity. How might we change the game?

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In Uncertain Times, Embrace Imperfectionism

Harvard Business

The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers.

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Best 13 Software for Managing Your Strategic Portfolio in 2025: Trending Tools for Smarter Business Decisions

Epicflow

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Read further to learn what tools will help you execute your organizations strategy and drive business performance in 2025. What is Strategic Portfolio Management Software?

Software 130
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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.