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Why "Break Technologies" Will Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. But even with its ability to sustain lower prices, the new model had little support.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. For us, our strategy informs every big decision we make — what markets to enter or exit, what acquisitions to make, what products to introduce." (The

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Google Glass Failed Because It Just Wasn’t Cool

Harvard Business Review

As Apple, Warby Parker, Net a Porter, and Shinola all know: Cool is perhaps the crucial factor in the success of new products. It put Google Glass on models during Fashion Week, in advertorials in fashion magazines, in the hands of fashion “influencers.” In short, technology hasn’t liberated people.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project.

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