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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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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Data — on everything from pedestrian patterns and traffic to crime, school performance, and energy use — can change the way properties are used as well as the way they are valued. But now the range of possibilities has gotten bigger, and B2C or even B2G2C business models are growing more common.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

North America's fracking fever has proviked experts (who once feared the world had passed Hubbert's Peak ) to predict the US will soon be a net energy exporter. Hollywood and content creators worldwide have taken notice and readjusted their business models accordingly. So do the emerging middle classes in Brazil and Colombia.

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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?