Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first mass market personal computer. Self-made billionaires effectively operate in a world of dualities—they seamlessly hold on to multiple ideas, multiple perspectives, and multiple scales. Patient Urgency. Taking a Relative View of Risk.

Mass Marketing 150

Mass Marketing Follow-up Maturity Operations 150

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 98

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. So, what’s the result? What’s the result?

Mass Marketing 10

Mass Marketing Technology Contract Manufacturing Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This media powerhouse offers creative and production services as well as cutting-edge post-production services to such films as Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. Reliance MediaWorks. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience. But when the capital requirements to enter markets have declined, the marginal cost of reaching consumers is effectively zero, and one-off production is not hard to do.

Porter 16

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Their RFP-responsive outsourcing expertise had perversely obscured essential insights into what creative fulfillment should mean for both customers and client. Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines.

Process 10

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 10