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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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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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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business Review

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. So, what’s the result?

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Any Value Proposition Hinges on the Answer to One Question

Harvard Business Review

In pharmaceuticals, there are blockbuster drugs targeted at mass-markets segments. But insurers pay this price because Soliris is the only safe and effective treatment for these diseases and that price is less than the total cost of alternative treatments. Soliris costs $400,000 per patient annually. billion in 2014.

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The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

Harvard Business Review

On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Kalanick gets the same on Didi Chuxing’s board, and Uber gets around a 20% share of the Chinese company, which will run Uber’s Chinese operation as a separate brand.

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience. Big Isn't Enough.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. People look at brands and ask what they do for the world.

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Seeing Robots Everywhere

Harvard Business Review

Problem is: their professional setup costs $30,000 to assemble and a remote operator on a keyboard to run. Seeing a potential revenue stream to fund more research robot development, the team set up a company, BeatBots , to make a very pared-down version with the same look and feel available to the consumer market. The list goes on.