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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. F OR YEARS I was taught that growing the business in an industry with strong competition was mostly a zero-sum game. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market.

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The Three-Box Approach to Business Model Reinvention: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. In fact it can be applied in any organizational setting: non-profit, for profit, in a factory or in a service organization, in a big conglomerate or a small family-run business.

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Three Innovation Trends in Asia

Harvard Business Review

Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. For example, the Tata Group's sprawling empire has churned out innovative automobiles and hotel formats, reframed the watch industry, and brought innovative IT services to overlooked small and medium businesses. A focus on business models.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? How a company creates, captures, and delivers value; codifying the current business model is the critical first step of business model innovation. Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Denise Pirrotti Hummel – An expert on the connection between inclusion and business performance, an author, consultant, Ted Talk finalist, HBA Board member and the Chair of Athena’s Life Sciences Committee.

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Extreme Negotiations: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. In many cases they created radically new business models. This is a strategy Tuck’s VG Govindarajan calls “reverse innovation.” They have a high-growth, high-revenue focus.

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