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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. The book is broken into 5 chapters, Canvas - which is the mental and physical model of how the authors Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur think about business. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas.

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Beyond Mass Customization

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization. Let me tell you a secret for creating the customer-focused organization: focus on the customer! That may sound tautological or even trite, but it has real meaning, because most so-called customer-focused organizations do nothing of the kind. Multiple Markets Within.

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How Africa Is Challenging Marketing

Harvard Business Review

As this untapped market captures global attention, it also offers marketers a chance to leapfrog the legacy of mass marketing and reinvent the field from the ground up. This shift will play out most obviously in marketing communications and advertising. The New Marketing Organization.