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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. Showing you how you can shift your perspective.

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. It carries with it one fundamental assumption: that customers are tangential to the process. Big Isn't Enough.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. The actionable cost savings from process improvement.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Each step in this process leads to another. It’s analyzing processes, measuring outcomes, and changing practices until you get it right. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. Health Operations' The Cleveland Clinic’s Journey. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality. percent in 1960. How many are needed?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business Review

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. will also be pivotal in that process.