thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 5, 2021

Identify your organization’s major threats and opportunities by assessing these five aspects of your market. As you begin your strategic planning process, it’s important to assess the market you’re competing in. A classic tool for doing so is Porter’s five forces. How do they behave?

Porter 46

Porter Marketing Core Competence Strategic Planning 46

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

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. Showing you how you can shift your perspective.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). The book is filled with concrete examples, processes and checklists that will help a business owner in creating a successful business.” ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “But the book doesn't stop there!

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And of course, products can now be connected with other products, leading to new analytics and new services for more effective forecasting, process optimization, and customer service experiences. In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus.

Business Model 13

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things. The first is: why all the fuss with defining it?

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

It is sometimes more effective for a region to grow its small businesses than to get caught up in a bidding war for elephants — a process that too often helps only the elephant. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8