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Tilt: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers Niraj Dawar Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why downstream, customer-led activities and preferences will dominate the competitive landscape in the future Niraj Dawar offers an exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking examination and explanation of what could be viewed – what (..)

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

Grow while keeping fixed costs constant. He developed three principles of short- and long -term performance that forced them to consider the long- and short-term implication in every decision they made: 1. Scrub accounting and business practices down to what is real. Invest in the future, but not excessively.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Fixed Costs / (Average Price – Variable Costs) = Break-Even Point –. It is a blog where I cover all the tips & tricks related to Mobile and more related to tech. Efficiently and carefully following these steps will lead you towards starting your dream small-scale business. About the Author.

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Five Ways to Retain Employees Forever

Harvard Business Review

In a recent blog post , we cited some alarming numbers: 40% of workers are planning to look for a new job within the next six months, and 69% say they're already passively looking. As employers, those figures are frightening. We're careful to hire only the best workers, and once we have them, we want to keep them.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

4) Costs – what is your cost per sale/customer? Pro-rated fixed costs. Variable costs. What are your economies of scale (how much less will produce more of your product cost). PR – blogs, press releases, Events, demos, conventions. Turnover (i.e. TV, radio, magazines, newspaper.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Through the outsourcing arrangements, Bharti dramatically lowered its costs while ensuring high quality for customers, since vendors had world-class competencies in their domains.