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The Entrepreneurial Corporation: Oxymoron? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • April 4, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 0 Comments. Your students would be better-served by a social media whiz-kid half my age,” I told him. The change-makers are small to medium size enterprises that either lead niche categories or are keen to knock the big guy from the top rung of a mass market.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments.

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. Because that's the point. Sharing, not telling. No, we need to do things entirely differently.

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10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business

Harvard Business Review

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! Leading business and marketing practitioner Seth Godin imagines a world where the mass market dies, where mediocrity holds no economic value. Susan Cain: The power of introverts. Like to read?

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. This media powerhouse offers creative and production services as well as cutting-edge post-production services to such films as Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Cambridge, U.K.