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If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided?

Harvard Business Review

These common examples all embody the us/them architecture--but the divisive framework is so embedded in modern business models that it's difficult to discern. For example, Google reveals its topline direction to everyone in the company and asks that all employees figure out how their work fits into the company's strategy.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

We’ll also offer some examples of how digitally native businesses have addressed these challenges. Let’s offer a tangible example. But we’d speculate that Fitbit could do just as well at coaching you through your personal health goals by logging the reading on the minute and storing 1/60th of the data.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

Examples of high-profile failed business collaborations are everywhere. The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”. As management professors Adam M. Brandbenburger and Barry J.