First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003), Henry Chesbrough observes, “An open business model uses a new (..)

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Open-book Innovation Business Model Review 75

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 288

Mills Scofield

JUNE 16, 2013

In a world filled with Pay-Day lenders that ruin lives, CGF is starting to making a difference by innovating the basic business model. Recognizing that this paradigm is untenable, at CGF we are using business model and other innovation to scale a solution that is affordable and financially viable for us as an organization.

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Innovation Microfinance Business Model Self-aware 161

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. Let’s drill down on the talent argument a bit deeper.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Here's a guest post from entrepreneur Duncan Murtagh," an Irishman living in Taiwan, who has been to New Hampshire several times": How can we move past the tough times of 2011 to a more profitable 2012? A = Adapt – How about adapting the successful drive-through services that the fast food companies offer to the fast-casual market?

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Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Disclosure: One of us works at Amazon Web Services, a provider for many SaaS businesses.).

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

We just spent the last few weeks criss-crossing India to discover how private sector companies are striving to support India's quest for "inclusive growth.". Indian companies have traditionally contributed to inclusive growth primarily through philanthropic activities or CSR (corporate social responsibility) projects.

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

More and more companies I see these days are making strategic process changes to drive unprecedented business model innovation. Business model innovation — often enabled by new technology platforms — isn't new. It was the driver of dramatic growth for, among other companies, Dell, FedEx, and Wal-Mart.

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Business Model Process Innovation Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. While there is certainly merit in questioning your business model, revolutionary business model transformation remains elusive despite the buzz.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

Groupon is poised for its debut as a public company. One of the fastest growing of the recent hatch of Internet darlings, the deal-a-day company was worth $5.3 Somewhat astonishingly, Google's offer was spurned and the company set its sights on going public. billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! The best way to find out what makes a company successful is to look at the top. They are the founders and daily drivers of their companys corporate cultures.

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Blog CEO Leadership Styles Leadership 230

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. “In Japan, one shift by one employee checking parts is approximately $50,000 per year, and our business model is simple, ” SixAI founder and chairman Ran Poliakine told me recently.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

Marketing 75

Marketing Review Books Globalization 75

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The ownership has introduced other business model innovations. However, Forbes estimates that the value of the Red Sox has climbed from about $500 million in 2002 to $900 million in 2011 — an impressive 7% annual growth. Systematically evaluate business model options. Or host a hockey game in Fenway.

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Business Model Innovation Maturity Franchising 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And for-profit companies have something to learn from our philosophy — by putting social good at the center of their business models. It's also critical to make the greater good an essential part of your business model. First, in any social enterprise it's important to remember not to start with an "ask."

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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Marketing Review Books Globalization 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

When you think of Apple you immediate think of a company that has built a strong brand around quality design. Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. The Business Tree TM is his trademarked approach to growing, strengthening and evolving business, while mastering change.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. Narayana Murthy, the authors showed how one leader used the approach to remake a company. Box 2: Selectively forget the past. Box 3: Create the future.

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Business Model Govindarajan Licensing CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. Martine Liautaud is the author of Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices From Companies That Help Women Succeed (Wiley, April 2016).

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Leaders should also be able to create a sense of urgency by enabling the employees to see the truth of the company’s current state and as well as feel the “romance” of its possible future state. Trust can be built by encouraging transparency in communication and information sharing.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Today, every company, small or multi-national, new or incumbent, can obtain innovation capacity.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders. Thanks for sharing this one.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

You could argue that Cipla's formula is simply to piggyback on other companies' products, so it doesn't have to pay for R&D. Big pharma, by contrast, has historically done the reverse: it tries to fit emerging markets to the model it uses successfully in developed ones. irketi in 2011 provided expansion in Turkey.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

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Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 417

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Where the company is located. A good company usually begins with co-founders: the notion of a lone Edison willing a giant company into existence is rarely correct.

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Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Sometimes this model fits reality. The merger was called off when the companies saw the DOJ’s tally, presumably because the parties expected they’d lose in court. This kind of competition can also be affected by mergers and may in itself drive deal making.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

Finally, before moving on to 2011, I went back to a post I wrote in June, 2009. My focus for this blog in 2011 will be to continue to support those who see great leadership as being key to creating successful, functional and happy workplaces. Lise Reply Gwyn Teatro January 4, 2011 at 1:04 am Lise, Thank you. Happy New Year!

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Review Gilbert Diversity Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. Every company can implement strategic planning by involving all or many employees at every level. All the things that get lost when trying to sell the ideas to the company when they had no say in the decisions that were made.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

It''s hard to believe it was just two years ago that the company and its CEO were widely ridiculed — and even subject to a Saturday Night Live parody. I''ve written three HBR posts on Netflix since its difficult 2011. Put simply, Netflix is a generous company. Generous companies appear to be proud of what they make.

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