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RESISTANCE TO CHANGE RECONSIDERED

Lead Change Blog

Often follow-up will be needed to any quantitative data collection, such as a focus group or confidential interviews, to understand the reasons for the resistance. Fear of failure. Lack of trust in leadership. Include a feedback loop so that actions can be calibrated along the way. Address resistance in the right venue.

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5 Leadership Lessons for Every Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Focus on Customer Value “The customer is always right” might come off as a cliché to you, and the reason might be its excessive use in the business world. Putting customers at the center of your business model has many benefits. That being said, let’s look at why this phrase is repeated so frequently.

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Test-Running A New Business Idea

Strategy Driven

A test run will establish any improvements that may need to be made to your business model, as well as providing essential audience research and feedback that you can then use to more effectively market your business. You don’t have to produce a full working business model just yet. Use a focus group of strangers.

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Put Your New Business Model to the Test

Harvard Business Review

Actual market experience, veteran marketers will tell you, never quite matches the results of quantitative and qualitative market research reports and what consumers say they will do behind the two-way glass of a focus group facility. Anyone can map out new business model ideas on paper.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Small Business

Strategy Driven

If you think your business will be able to bridge a gap that your competitors can’t, then you’ve got a solid business idea. If you’re hesitant to start a business, you can consider opening a franchise. The business model, brand following and concept are already taken care of; all you need is funding and a good location.

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Will We Ever Be Empowered With Our Own Data?

The Horizons Tracker

Data is the stock and trade of the digital economy today, with the standard business model being to offer free or marginal cost services to users in return for free access and ownership of the data they generate whilst using those services. This data is then monetized in a variety of ways. ” Bringing data to life.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates — all predicated on the idea that they would IPO to raise more cash. Yet while we had plenty of tools for execution, we had none for search. So we built them.

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