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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. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. It carries with it one fundamental assumption: that customers are tangential to the process.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

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 It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Showing you how you can shift your perspective.

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Is Canada's Innovation Performance Really So Bad?

Harvard Business Review

For a variety of reasons, we are not leading the world in creating innovative products, services, and processes in our businesses and workplaces." As a consequence, the report is a call for the Canadian government to address Canada's productivity gap by encouraging innovation and human capital investments.

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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. Redesigning products to meet environmental standards or social needs offers new business opportunities.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. Yet, the hits had identifiable traits of a Bacharach production. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The public sought out recordings with his hits.

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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.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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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. The Cleveland Clinic’s Journey. A patient-focused institute combines medical and surgical departments for specific diseases or body systems.