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Large firms are increasingly facing existential crisis. While knowledge and information era organizations are replacing industrial age giants in the honor rolls of technocratic leadership, quality, excellence, and profitability, the large industrial era firms (whether banking, utilities, automobile, metals) are struggling to retain their financial attractiveness and are increasingly becoming unsustainable. During the industrial era, becoming large was considered 'a thumb rul

Google's recent restructuring of the entire corporation into a collection of companies under the holding company called Alphabet can be considered a Shoaling formation. The URL for the new company Alphabet is abc.xyz. Alphabet includes the following entities: A smaller company called Google, headed by CEO Sundar Pichai, that includes the company's core businesses. Those businesses: "search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android and the related technical infrastructure." Other

Action Framework for SOFS Execution Prepare your organization for Team Spirit, Shared sense of supremacy, Competitive Orientation, Sense of empowerment & ownership. Get your organization members ready for a challenge – to challenge themselves; emphasizing the importance of stretching energy and resources at individual, group and unit levels. Training for team spirit: Let everyone put on a Jersey with a strategy slogan that will channel the members’ energy and commitment towar

With the advent of new millennium, knowledge economy has taken stronger roots across many industries gradually replacing the scale economy firms. As markets have become quite dynamic and technologies are changing radically, it is inexorable for companies to continually innovate and adapt to change. In this new context, established firms as well as emerging industry-challengers continually search for strategies that can ensure better returns with minimal risk. While incumbent