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These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Reverse Innovation in Tech Startups: The Story of Capillary Technologies

Harvard Business Review

But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? The very definition of "high-technology" hints at something typically reserved for the developed world. However, the story of Capillary Technologies portends a global shift of technology "trickling up" in the opposite direction.

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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. national interest by threatening technology leakage or undermining the health of U.S. competitors.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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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. Technology. It's the same inertia we saw in the early days of the internet.

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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 limitations of place and space are no longer as relevant today.

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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.