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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

Leading-edge firms are using asset-light, digital, or e-commerce-centric business models to enter into new markets and expand rapidly. Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem. They’re also becoming more selective about which markets to enter and paradoxically deepening their reengagement in their chosen markets.

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

They will use them to develop new products and services, to build new channels, to elevate their talent, to increase their business resilience, and to develop entirely new business models along the way. Expect blockchain to underpin brand-oriented supply chains that give brands more control over their suppliers.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

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How Large Food Retailers Can Help Solve the Food Waste Crisis

Harvard Business Review

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Partner with farmers in the supply chain.

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Who’s Managing Your Company’s Network Effects?

Harvard Business Review

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business Review

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. And services have a very different business model.

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