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Research Technology Management, March, 2006 by Anonymous
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Scanning the Periphery: George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker; Harvard Business Review, November 2005; pp. 135-148.
This article by two Wharton School professors presents a method for determining where on an organization's "periphery"-that "blurry zone" at the edge of its vision-companies should be looking in order to avoid being blind-sided by unsuspected exogenous changes. Their method is a question-based framework divided into three categories:
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