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Thoughts on Your Personal and Professional Success in the New Year

Management Excellence

I was truly gifted in 2011 to gain access to and work with and support some remarkable professionals across a number of different market segments…from high tech to professional services to manufacturing, and I learned something with every engagement and encounter.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Reverse Innovation in Tech Startups: The Story of Capillary Technologies

Harvard Business Review

This enabled them to build a full CRM (customer relationship management) solutions suite, specifically targeted towards retailers, that included associate applications, analytics, tablet/smartphone applications, and social components. In 2011, Capillary began looking beyond emerging markets for further growth.

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Peru's Innovation Drive

Harvard Business Review

The first round of presidential polls on April 10, 2011, set the stage for a June runoff between the leftist Ollanta Humala, a former military commander, and right-winger Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a former Peruvian president who is in jail. Re-imagining value doesn't mean focusing on cost (the denominator).

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments. But other mergers suggest that competition is often more complex than that.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. One of the most important realities of tapping into supply chains is: it takes time.

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

Kirsten Gagnaire is the Global Director of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), launched in May 2011 by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information?