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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Make Your Competition Work for You

Harvard Business Review

We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. For example, if you're selling a travel magazine, you could add a free travel video when someone buys a subscription.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments. But other mergers suggest that competition is often more complex than that.

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Are You Hurting Your Own Cause?

Harvard Business Review

He developed a plan to reach a growing market segment, which he billed to his colleagues as "obviously compelling" and the only way to save the company from a "dying past." Do you actually understand your colleagues' viewpoint — or do you just assume you do?

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Watch Out For India's Consumer Market Pitfalls

Harvard Business Review

Save yourself some trouble and manage India from India. Managers first hired in India can go and run marketing for western companies, from Mastercard to Reebok. After all, it's a lot easier to manage a single distributor. American companies have a tendency to send expat Indians in the US to manage their India operations.

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Learn to Adjust Your Focus

Harvard Business Review

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). When the product was launched in 2001 , it aimed to revolutionize personal transportation , touted as a unique way for people to travel short distances.

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Big Business Increasingly Supports Gay Rights

Harvard Business Review

Fred Keeton of Caesars Entertainment — which is listed as a platinum member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association Foundation — put it simply : "The LGBT community is an incredibly important market segment for our properties.".