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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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6 Ways Technology Can Help Companies Innovate Out of the Coronavirus Downturn

Strategy Driven

In my book, “The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s,” I outline the technologies that will drive unprecedented innovation into products and services in the 2020s, creating entirely new business models. Better supply chains. Blockchain.

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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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The Fight Over Tesla Shows How Little Value Dealerships Add

Harvard Business Review

Car dealers and more generally intermediaries represent an extra layer of companies in the supply chain that clearly increases costs to customers. But in many cases they also serve important functions in a supply chain and can create more value than the inefficiencies they cause.

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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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