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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. This final chapter puts it all together.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. 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. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. competitors.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand.

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Learning How to Make Market Segmentation Work Again

Harvard Business Review

Technology trends around ubiquitous communications and cheap, unlimited bandwidth and processing power have dropped the boundaries of availability for any number of products, converting some of them into digital formats and easing the restrictions of geography for others. The only segmentation that matters today is your own.

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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? Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Luckily, this single contract was pivotal in helping HarQen reposition themselves from a technology-driven voice response company, to a market-driven recruiting systems one.