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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. For example , U.S. This phenomenon has been documented in the consumer-packaged-goods , food , semiconductor-manufacturing , and other industries.