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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad.

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David Evans and Dick Schmalensee on “The New Economics of Multisided Platforms”: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

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Secure Your Flanks, Protect Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. Firms must thoroughly understand themselves and their competitors through appropriate environment scanning and market intelligence. Eventually, some incumbents adapted and invested in technology as well.

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Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach

Harvard Business Review

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. If you're a healthcare technology provider like GE, you're worried about the healthcare sector at home and abroad.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age.

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Social Progress = Economic Success: Social Innovation at Work

Harvard Business Review

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success. trillion by 2020.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

And the seven policy changes Stew Friedman recommends would benefit all working Americans. 7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?