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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. Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. 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

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. 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. Gerald Lord/Getty Images.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Like the rising temperature of the water the proverbial frog is sitting in, organizations are feeling the social era all around them, but failing to notice how significant a change it has produced. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with.

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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. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Reliance MediaWorks.

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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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