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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. I think it was the graphic design of the book that first caught my eye. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

The finance departments of these companies struggled to account in the same set of books for both one-time revenues for product sales and the recurring subscription revenues for IoT-related services. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business Review

What makes marketing creative? Is it more imagination or innovation? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. Marketers of the past thought like artists, managers, and promoters.

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Beyond Mass Customization

Harvard Business Review

But we must go beyond looking at market segments and niches to embracing the truism that every customer is his own market. Multiple Markets Within. When I wrote a book on it in 1993, it was, as its sub-title attested, "the new frontier in business competition." and Four Faces of Mass Customization. ).

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. It also determines which market segments the company will serve and what channels it will use to reach them. In his book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , the late C.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? This approach works when the visionary firm can single-handedly build a new, attractive market reality.