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This chapter highlights the importance of focus and emphasizes why having focus is a matter of survival and growth; it shows the consequences of losing focus and helps an organization in discovering, retaining, and leveraging focus, as pertinent to one’s business. It gives a process and the relevant tools for establishing focus. It also explores how ICT and open innovation can help in this process, and for different organizations.
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Birudavolu, S., Nag, B. (2019). Finding Business Focus with ICT. In: Business Innovation and ICT Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1675-3_5
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