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How Covid Affected Finnish Small Businesses

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers highlight the particular impact on businesses in the travel and hospitality sectors, who have all suffered due to the lockdown measures. By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Face-to-face interactions.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

“Here again, we refer to the stakeholders and the business model in this industry: the trade sector is dominated by small and medium-sized firms that are engaged in the wholesale and retail sale of household goods (largest share in our sample), furniture, plumbing, pharmaceutical goods, and so on,” the researchers explain.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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How Estonia Can Inspire a Digital Post-Brexit Britain

The Horizons Tracker

The Estonian model for digital transformation could help the UK recover from the potential economic and political fallout following their exit from the European Union. The E-Residency initiative and its succeeding 2.0

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” How could we deploy these competencies in completely new ways or new contexts to expand the boundaries of our business model? This is quite understandable. Not very likely. This is the essential point.

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Big Pharma's Hidden Business Model and How Your Company Funds It

Harvard Business Review

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. But why not?

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver.

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