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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions.

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

Harvard Business Review

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs, a regular meditator, made use of mindfulness practice to challenge operating assumptions at Apple and to enhance creative insight in planning. Google’s Chade-Meng Tan , has developed dozens of such workplace meditation modules that could fit neatly into planning retreats. It can’t hurt.

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. We see advances in materials, processes, and information technology that will make possible entirely new kinds of products and can radically alter how manufacturers operate. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

Harvard Business Review

of the votes were in favor, providing a strong signal that climate change is an important financial risk and that shareholders want to know more about what companies are doing to transform their operations and products to remain competitive in a low-carbon world. In particular, boards will have to show that they understand two things.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business Review

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. Both Canada and Mexico are hoping that adjustments to the trade agreement will deepen integration rather than promote protectionist economic policies; the Trump administration has provided conflicting signals over what kind of measures it will pursue.