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What is the Price?

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What is the Price? The book is called The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do and is written by NY TImes Editorial Board member Eduardo Porter. The Price of Life?

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models

Harvard Business Review

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

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How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

Escalating wealth driven by a bull market cannot be divorced from the atrophying of the middle class when stock repurchases and cash reserves nudge earnings per share and stock prices higher but do nothing to create employment or increase national productivity. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. What Your Stock Price Really Means.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership.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. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

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Water's Economics as Muddy as Ever

Harvard Business Review

billion in agricultural production alone. Water is one of the world's most glaring commercial anomalies, with a price reflecting nothing more than the costs to extract and distribute it. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream.