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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

The answer reveals the critical role business models play in determining competitive winners in times of disruptive change. But there is nothing inherently wrong with digital pennies, if you have the right business model. Growing Digital Business. The combined market value of those four companies? Insight Center.

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A Year in Review…and a Hint at What's Next

You're Not the Boss of Me

Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. And, it helps if you are a Gilbert & Sullivan fan too. It’s a refreshing antidote to the mainstream “business&# model which in many ways, still devalues the personal.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

The company took aggressive action, became a viable player in the emerging disruptive space, invested in new growth businesses, but it just doesn't seem like it was enough. It's the business model, stupid. It's natural for a company to extend the business model it knows, but it can cause it to miss big growth opportunities.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Their failure is usually an inability to truly embrace the new business models the disruptive change opens up. Where they failed was in realizing that online photo sharing was the new business, not just a way to expand the printing business. Insight Center.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business. For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S.

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Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

Harvard Business Review

And in " Two Routes to Resilience ," Clark Gilbert, Matt Eyring, and Richard Foster described how companies that have successfully transformed their business in the face of disruptive change have made smart use of a "capabilities exchange" that allows new growth businesses to selectively draw on unique enabling capabilities without being overly constrained (..)

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.”