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More than One Way to Organize a Business

Thin Difference

While business leaders say they want higher employee engagement, the traditional models have stumbled. With more than one way to organize a business, why don’t we see other models used more? Other business models exist. Let’s review a snapshot of some of these organizational and business models.

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New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might

Harvard Business Review

They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit. Thus, a post-scarcity world, premised on cooperation, would emerge. In a book titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, But can we really end scarcity?

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. As a $17 billion, 90,000-person network of 258 cooperatives, the Mondragon Corporation is the antithesis of the monolithic, go-it-alone enterprise at the center of so much economic activity.

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Teams Can’t Innovate If They’re Too Comfortable

Harvard Business Review

A philanthropist and a magazine editor discussed new business models for publishing. Funded by grant money and generous donors, with the luxury of inviting people to sit around on a grassy lawn for a whole weekend, you might think it’s easy for them to spark such conversations, to find such a diverse array of interesting people.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Ground innovations in the business model. To sustain new types of interactions and ward off copycats, companies need to connect innovations to the mechanics of their underlying business model. Customer experience innovation happens at the intersection of consumer needs, business model, and brand.

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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

The diversity of ideas was as striking as the diversity of the contributors. Inside-Out Transformation: A Hybrid Business Model for a Converging World. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work. Story by John Baldzic. Hack by Valeria Budinich. Story by Gib Bulloch. Hack by Kevin McKouen.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

But now the range of possibilities has gotten bigger, and B2C or even B2G2C business models are growing more common. At its Center of Competence for Cities, in London, Siemens employs a diverse set of experts, from architects and urban planners to public finance specialists.