Breakthrough Strategy: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Breakthrough Strategy

  • a strategy that achieves significant new results

Additional Resources

The Marketing Strategy Blueprint
Creating a great big, breakthrough marketing strategy isn't that difficult. But it does take time, diligence, and a liberal dose of creativity. You now have a complete blueprinting process for creating the kind of marketing strategy that can make a massive impact on your business. Follow it, have fun with...
Tags: Marketing Strategy, WebMarketingEzine.com, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
'Beta' Business Strategy Launches Breakthrough Technology
BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--July 7, 1999-- The "beta" strategy of the software industry is being used to launch a breakthrough technology. Reflexive Materials TechnologyTM (RMTTM) is a new 'open protocol' for the materials world. It has the potential to change the shape of virtually every manmade item from homes to cars...
Tags: Business Wire, Strategy
Research articles 1999-07-07
Balanced Scorecards for the Rest of Us
The Balanced Scorecard is a powerful organizational framework used by many large companies to manage strategy implementations for breakthrough results. A Balanced Scorecard approach puts strategy in action to achieve breakthrough results. Its simple and practical design focuses the entire organization on balanced and measured priorities making it a powerful...
Tags: TechJournal South, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
White papers 2003-09-12
GaAs on Silicon -- changing the economics of high performance semiconductors; Strategy Analytics comments on Motorola's GaAs on silicon breakthrough.
M2 PRESSWIRE-5 September 2001-STRATEGY ANALYTICS: GaAs on Silicon -- changing the economics of high performance semiconductors; Strategy Analytics comments on Motorola's GaAs on silicon breakthrough C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04092001 London, England -- Strategy Analytics sees Motorola`s announcement that...
Tags: GAAS, high-performance, Motorola Inc., semiconductor, silicon, Strategy Analytics
Research articles 2001-09-05
Breakthrough: Do Clinical Research the Six Sigma Way
During the last two decades, process improvement was a dominant movement in the manufacturing industry. However, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies did not broadly recognize how breakthrough process improvement methods could be integrated with clinical research practices. Although Six Sigma is interdisciplinary, its internal structure and the nature of its interactions...
Tags: iSixSigma, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers
Strategy in Search of a Method
The strategy a company follows - that is, the choices it makes - determines its likely success. And in today's fast-changing environment, the ability to generate breakthrough strategy, and to do so not once but repeatedly, has become more important than ever. Companies create their futures through the strategies they...
Tags: Columbia Business School, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-04-13
Nearly 25% of Global CxOs Expect Operational Strategy to Deliver Breakthrough Performance, PRTM Survey Shows
Global Management Consulting Firm's Study Finds Senior Executives Plan to Use Operational Strategy to Improve Profitability, Revenue Growth
Tags: performance, PRTM, survey
Research articles 2006-12-13
CLI Introduces Breakthrough Desktop Video Family First Step in New Enterprise-Wide Strategy; Best-of-class products priced as low as $1,495; Superior performance with full CIF up to 22 fps at 128 Kbps; Choice of Intel ProShare and DataBeam FarSite collabo
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 29, 1996--CLI (Compression Labs, Incorporated) (NASDAQ/NMS:CLIX) today announced a breakthrough PC desktop videoconferencing product family as part of the Company's strategy to offer and integrate a full range of video communications solutions to solve enterprise-wide business needs.
Tags: desktop, Intel Corp., performance, video
Research articles 1996-01-29
Avatech Solutions Announces Engagement of Firm to Assist with Breakthrough Strategy
Business Editors
Tags: strategy
Research articles 2002-11-25
CebaTech Announces Strategy to Deliver High-Value Internet Protocol Intellectual Property and Breakthrough ESL Technology; Company Leverages Ubiquity of C to Transform Software to Silicon and Break the IC Verification Bottleneck
EATONTOWN, N.J. -- CebaTech, Inc. today unveiled its strategy to deliver high-value, high-performance Internet Protocol intellectual property and breakthrough electronic system level ESL technology to companies developing ASIC and FPGA solutions. The company is targeting developers in the communication, networking and storage industries as well as in the broader integrated...
Tags: C, integrated circuit, intellectual property, software, strategy
Research articles 2006-07-17
Implementing Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard: An Introduction to the Strategy-Focused Organization
Strategy, to put it in its simplest form, is about difficult choices and trade-offs; it is about deliberately choosing to be different. However, just having a strategy is not enough. The solution, which can be assisted to the strategy, is the balanced scorecard. The balanced scorecard can be thought of...
Tags: Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
White papers 2002-10-01
Commerce Bancshares Chosen As Finalist For The Bain Award For Strategy Excellence
ST. LOUIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 27, 1998-- Award Recognizes Midwest Companies Whose Strategy Best Reflects Factors Most Critical to Achieving Sustained Profits and Growth Commerce Bancshares, Inc., (Nasdaq:CBSH) has been recognized as one of 12 finalists for The Bain Award for Strategy Excellence, an award created to honor dynamic-growth...
Tags: Bain, Bain & Co., Business Wire, Strategy
Research articles 1998-10-27
Six Sigma: A Breakthrough Strategy or Just Another Fad?
Six Sigma is partly a great breakthrough and partly a fad. The missionary zeal, the specialized terminology (e.g. "Black Belts"), the rush by some consultants to make profits at the expense of sound methodology, and the "instant pudding" attitudes of some upper managers are all examples of the faddish elements...
Tags: Strategy, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Rainbow Foods Chosen as Finalist for the Bain Award for Strategy Excellence
HOPKINS, Minn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 27, 1998-- Award Recognizes Midwest Companies Whose Strategy Best Reflects Factors Most Critical to Achieving Sustained Profits and Growth Rainbow Foods, a division of Fleming Companies Inc. (NYSE:FLM), has been recognized as one of 12 finalists for The Bain Award for Strategy Excellence, an...
Tags: Bain, Bain & Co., Business Wire, Strategy
Research articles 1998-10-27
No breakthrough in talks on Kosovo status
VIENNA AFP — Talks between Serbian and Kosovo Albanian leaders have failed to produce a breakthrough in solving the sensitive issue of the province's future status, UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari said in Vienna. When asked if there had been any breakthrough, he said: "No. I would be lying...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Leadership, Vienna
Research articles 2006-07-24
Nokia/Vodafone Deal is a Major Breakthrough for Nokia's Mobile Content Strategy, Says Analysys
LONDON -- Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator in revenue terms, has agreed to distribute a range of Nokia devices carrying Nokia's Ovi Internet service. "This is a major breakthrough in mobile entertainment," says Analysys, global advisers on telecoms, media and IT (http://www.analysys.com).
Tags: Analysys, mobile, Nokia Corp., Vodafone Group Plc.
Research articles 2007-11-09
Maximizing the returns from research: to profit from technology, companies need to change their strategy and begin selling the embodiment of that technology at the ever-shifting point of modular decoupling
Research that creates the right technologies at the right time is critical to competitive success in many industries. Over the long term, research into new materials, components and products provides the fuel that can make products perform better, cost less and generate attractive profits. Yet the promise that research holds...
Tags: Christensen, disk, Harvard Business School, IBM Corp., industry, Innovator, performance, strategy, technology
Research articles 2004-07-01
Gateway 2000 Sells Destination Big Screen PC Through Retail Chains; New retail distribution strategy lets consumers experience breakthrough PC
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 20, 1996-- Gateway 2000, the nation's leading direct marketer of personal computers, today announced it will make its breakthrough DestinationTM big-screen PC available through select retail stores, in response to consumer demand.
Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, strategy
Research articles 1996-08-20
Strategy First Inc. Acquires Submarine Titans; Signs a North American Publishing Agreement With Ellipse Studios' For Their Breakthrough Title
Business/Technology Editors
Tags: agreement
Research articles 2000-03-22
Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box
Notable Papers and Articles Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box; Kevin P. Coyne, Patricia Gorman Clifford, and Renee? Dye; Harvard Business Review, December 2007, pp. 70-78. The secret to regularly generating good and sometimes great ideas is deceptively simple, claim executive counselor Kevin Coyne and two McKinsey strategy consultants. They...
Tags: Harvard Business Review, McKinsey & Co.
Research articles 2008-03-01