Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
MICHAEL PORTEROperational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
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In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.
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There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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