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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. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. They also go down the road to explain free to not free enterprises like Skype. The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Increase your R&D spending.

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Can You Tweak Products Like Steve Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

In organizations, reframers similarly help the business see better ways to deal with complex problems or opportunities for innovation. For instance, a national bank in our sample was facing tough new regulations that immediately impacted about 14% of revenues.

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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish. While this is not a market that everyone should dive into, there is substantial opportunity for exceptional returns for the right buyer. .

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.