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Wednesday, January 6th 2021

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The Post-Covid Future of “Everything as a Service”
The tough lessons of 2020 will provoke two major developments in B2B, having to do with technology and people.

 

 

The Covid-19 will provoke major developments in B2B, and few businesses will sail through the pandemic unscathed. B2B solution providers have faced an especially dense and compacted cluster of challenges. What impact will that have on their strategy going forward?

This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from Wolfgang Ulaga about the Post-Covid Future of B2B.

 Wolfgang Ulaga@INSEAD

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Thought Leadership

How digitisation will underpin the post-Covid-19 recovery - Tech Monitor
Policymakers around the world are supporting digitisation, SMEs and infrastructure to future-proof their post-Covid-19 economies.

Covid-19 has upended business and work, many have lost their jobs, and businesses have gone bust. It’s now time for governments to take action to build more resilient, post-pandemic economies – and digital technology will play a starring role.

Laurie Clarke@ Tech Monitor

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The Essence of Strategy Is Now How to Change
When environments are complex and dynamic, strategy is about adaptability.

Understanding when and how to change is the essence of strategy. Identifying threats and opportunities become more relevant than the traditional strategy framework. How can companies recognize the change signals for their cotext and their industry?

B. Tom Hunsaker and Jonathan Knowles For MITSloan

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It’s Time to Replace the Public Corporation
We need a model that truly focuses on the long term.

In this article, the author explains how publicly traded corporations let down their most important shareholders and the most critical part of their workforce. He proposes a new structure, which he calls the long-term enterprise (LTE).

 Roger Martin@Roger L. Martin, Inc for HBR

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This way out: How leading companies chart a full-potential COVID-Exit
Half measures and incrementalism won’t work when your company emerges from a crisis. Here’s how leading organizations are thinking about holistic transformation to go all in.

Eager to find the right trajectory out of the pandemic, CEOs look ahead to develop their COVID-Exit strategies. How do they get this right?

Kevin Laczkowski, Martin Hirt, Justin Sanders, Becca Bauman, and Keith Martin@McKinsey

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This week’s Consulting News

Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway end healthcare venture
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

| @Financial Times

Pfizer And BioNTech To Offer COVID Vaccine To Volunteers Who Got Placebo
“The study doctor will follow the latest guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their local health authorities to offer the Vaccine Transition Option to participants in a prioritized manner,”

| @Businessworld

Asia Pacific Reigns in 2021 Henley Passport Index as Region Looks Set to Emerge First from Pandemic
/PRNewswire/ -- The latest results from the Henley Passport Index — the original ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations...

| @PRNewswire

Consultants share their predictions for 2021
As a new year brings an end to some long-running issues, while posing a whole new list of uncertainties, many firms still face countless challenges regarding digitalisation, workplace relations and n

| @Consultancy.uk

 

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