Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
Having developed a common image of current reality, the team moves on to consider its strategic priorities. What are the primary areas of leverage? What action needs to be taken? And in the context of high-leverage actions, what decisions need to be made about funding? Now, and only now, the spreadsheet can emerge, to take the vision for the compan
... See moreArt Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
I was clearly clueless but at least I had found five factors that I wanted to use to fix our strategy, though I had no idea how to do this. But that presented another problem. What order matters? Is climate more important than landscape? Maybe leadership is more important than purpose? Is there a strict order in which we move through these things?
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
What he did was both obvious and, at the same time, unexpected. He shrunk Apple to a scale and scope suitable to the reality of its being a niche producer in the highly competitive personal computer business. He cut Apple back to a core that could survive.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
In hindsight, it helped explain how some of our breakthroughs came about: they ended up betting on Moore's law, the microprocessor subsystem, and avoiding the entrenched bottlenecks in the storage subsystem