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Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
Michael Porter
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Michael Porter
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 23
Aerospace Engineer
Economist
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
Michael Eugene Porter
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The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.
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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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Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.
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Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
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Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously
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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.
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If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.
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Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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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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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
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A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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