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High-Performance Business: No Excuses: Five Reasons Every Company Should Strive to Achieve High Performance
The list of reasons why companies and executives shy away from pursuing high performance is long. Accenture's extensive research into the characteristics of high performers, however, has revealed a number of powerful and counterintuitive arguments for going for it anyway.
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Transformation: Changing Ahead of the Curve
Many companies wait too long to attempt transformations, doing so only when the signs of trouble have become obvious. But that's almost inevitably too late. High performers, by contrast, change before they must, knowing that the best way to transform is from a position of strength.
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Leadership: How to Create a Culture of High Performance
A culture of high performance depends on commitment at the highest levels of the organization—not only to set it in motion but also to maintain the momentum that ensures ongoing high performance. Accenture's research has identified what leaders need to do to develop the five key mindsets that underpin this performance anatomy.
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Strategy: Leading by Imitation
More and more businesses are grabbing great ideas wherever they can get them—elsewhere in their industries or beyond. But the true high performers are actively creating systemic competitive advantage by elevating their imitation game. Here's how.
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Strategy II: A Winning Playbook for Profitable Growth
A common characteristic of high-performance businesses is the ability to consistently generate new sources of revenue growth while delivering profitability from their core business. Critical to creating this capability inside large organizations: a disciplined approach and sustained effort from the senior management team.
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Information Technology: Using Enterprise Systems to Gain Uncommon Competitive Advantage
There's no longer any real argument about whether enterprise systems add value. The eye-opener now is just how far those systems can catapult companies ahead of their competitors by giving them the distinctive capabilities that drive high performance.
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Marketing: The Price Is Right . . . Isn't It?
Companies that price by instinct are more likely than ever to fall behind competitors, no matter how good their products and services are. Here are the hallmarks of businesses that are improving their performance by building a powerful pricing capability.
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Industry Report: Postal & Parcel Services: Special Delivery
By focusing single-mindedly on clear and consistent strategies, a handful of traditional postal operators have managed to overcome the threat to their monopolies and join the best commercial carriers in achieving high performance.