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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru. The business model is subscription based and very affordable around $2 / month.

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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

CO2 Partners uses the Business Model Generator for strategic planning; it identifies the critical elements of your business so you can focus on what is most important. The harm comes from taking resources away from what their customers consider to be core offerings.

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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton.

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Close to a decade after the idea of the "Bottom of the Pyramid" (BOP) came into the business vocabulary (disclosure: my father, C.K. Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. In the U.S., the recession forced people to increase their savings as credit tightened.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. It's more than just conventional wisdom. Solae closed the pilot.

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. The real trick is that even if competitors can eventually understand your core insight, their ability to respond is often constrained by their own competencies, customers, and business model.

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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. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Authority on new technology and communication. World authority on project management.