Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 5, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why I Love Starbucks. A new product or service is introduced. They fit perfectly into my business model. Starbucks is a business entity that I love.

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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. America’s poor are forced to choose between the 260% payday loan and mainstream financial products and services from which they are often excluded due to poor credit.

Innovation 161

Innovation Microfinance Business Model Self-aware 161

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

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? checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations.

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Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Company Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Many businesses are undergoing enormous transformations, restructuring their business models and reorganizing their employees. Businesses with high levels of employee satisfaction, productivity and working teams pay attention to building trust. About Julie Freeman.

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Restructuring Learning-by-Doing CEO Business Model 151

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. Today, however, that old model is being retired.

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 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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Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Disclosure: One of us works at Amazon Web Services, a provider for many SaaS businesses.). On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. and 2.2%, respectively.

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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 12

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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. Both of these traits are covered in the exam above as either a by-product or a sub-component thereof. Want to find out?

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. He is a Futurist and Corporate Strategist TM , with four trademarked concepts of business… heralded widely for ways to remediate corporate damage, enhance productivity and facilitate better business. Click here to cancel reply.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 417

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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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. Innovation needs to be considered in two ways: innovation capacity and innovation ability.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

One of Blank's disciples, Eric Ries , turned his wildly popular Startup Lessons Learned blog into The Lean Startup , one of 2011's best business books. One area that deserves particular attention is the notion of the minimal viable product (MVP). A company might introduce a product in the marketplace. Act on the learning.

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Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

— and even more for some kinds of businesses. To take advantage of this surge in shopping interest, most companies traditionally add to or modify their product offerings at this time of year. To help customers reduce decision-anxiety , some firms are building their business models around fewer and simpler choices.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. Sometimes, an entirely new product provides the right entry point.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Design stems from USE.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 The success Netflix is enjoying was far from certain if you recall the summer of 2011. For that to happen, consumers must know their demand for a product or service is predictable and likely to go up. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Business models Internet'

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

In the world of professional athletics, no one questions the value of coaching top performers, yet in business, the stigma seems to linger that those who need coaching must be ‘at risk.’ ’ I have built my entire business model on the opposite approach, however. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. Groupon's fundamental problem is that it has not yet discovered a viable business model. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

And of course: What’s the business model for any of the above? ” Vanity metrics are methods of measuring ROI that make product-builders feel good (or make them look good to funders), but don’t ultimately lead to awesome products. How about a “luxury” or “intellectual” platform?

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Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. Although the two stories could not appear to differ more, both offer business leaders strategic lessons that are intriguingly similar. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward.

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Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

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. You could also argue that since Cipla produces many of its products in India, they pay less for labor and don't have to worry about quality. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Company Pharmaceuticals Business Model Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Google now has expanded API-based access to Google Maps and several of its other products. In the classic HBR article “Marketing Myopia, ” Theodore Levitt asked a provocative question: “What business are you really in?

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Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. In Drive, Dan Pink asks us to look past the outmoded view of what motivates people, like the carrot and stick, to more cutting edge research about personal growth and development.

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Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. In the first kind, a company acquires another to strengthen its current business model. We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

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Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. A clear one is that there are many factors, such as the economy or the desirability of your products, that can affect a company’s success as much or more than its digital capabilities. Yagi Studios/Getty Images.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Today's data sophistication enables surgical strikes aimed at specific shoppers and specific product purchases.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Its stock price peaked weeks after the company went public in 2011 and is down about 80% since. That is, how much of an "annuity" does your business model have? For example, if you had 1,000 paying customers in 2011, how many of them were still with you as paying customers in 2012? What is your predictability metric?

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Quality Metrics Diversity Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. Jugaad innovators sense and respond to rapid changes in their environment by dynamically reinventing their business models.

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Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Enter jugaad innovation — a cost-effective approach for creating affordable products and services using limited resources. The founders came up with the idea for Embrace's frugal business model while they were all attending Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability program.

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Incubator Business Model Entrepreneur Cost 11