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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

More troubling, our own research shows that even when business leaders are proactive resource allocators, they are still hesitant to invest in new business models. As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Intellectual capital.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

An organization is essentially the sum total of its physical, financial, human, intellectual, and relationship capital. Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. The first step is to pinpoint your starting place.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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The Corporation is at Odds with the Future

Harvard Business Review

If we can''t see the business model, we''re not interested. And, if we have the intellectual capital, maybe get a pied-Ă -terre. The corporation puts a particular boundary between now and the future. And it guards this border ferociously. New ideas are scrutinized with tough mindedness and high indignation.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

The sector has entities, too, to improve the flow of intellectual capital. And consider: can you imagine being in a large company hallway and hearing one manager ask another, "What's your business model?" Ninety per cent of the time, they're in the now more glamorous failure sector.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model.