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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. But, to put it bluntly, Porter's value chain is antiquated in the light of the social era.

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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.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Typically such purchasers are emerging from some sort of major corporate unpleasantness — a near bankruptcy, say, or having missed out, Nokia-like, on a ground-shaking technological shift. Monitor & Co., Of course not," he replied.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? Conversations, not chains. Because that's the point.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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

Harvard Business Review

Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. Now, as part of the purchasing process, dozens of doctors gather to discuss the merits of certain products: Which ones provide the best outcomes for patients? Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality. American health care is on an unsustainable path. percent in 1960.

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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.