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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. 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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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. Take banking as a visible example. Bank of America recently considered a $5 fee for customers to get their own money via their debit card because they have to find a way to fund all those retail storefronts.

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Why Is Capital Afraid of Cities?

Harvard Business Review

The banks have retreated from that business — pursuing economies of scale, rather than helping scale up small companies. And it's easier to sell to a monolithic mass market than to the diverse and dynamic collection of markets that we call a city. The second barrier to capital flow is institutional inertia.

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Netflix and Why the Future of Streaming Looks Like Old-School TV

Harvard Business Review

This makes it easier to do what Netflix was built for: experiment with the long tail rather than go for mass-market hits. Netflix is banking on that. On-demand is one, as is the “born global” approach of Netflix. While it might be inconceivable for an old-style network to green-light a series that appeals to 0.5%

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Who's Your Brand's Editor-in-Chief?

Harvard Business Review

Here are four publishing approaches retailers are trying: The Mass Publisher. Mass publisher retailers create content of broad interest to their customers. They ask, "If we were a cable TV channel or a mass market magazine, what would our content, tone, and the experience we offered be? What topics could we own?"

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

It will be interesting to see how a former CFO will face up to these formidable challenges, complicated further by reports that the ECB isn’t allowing the Volkswagen group to fully benefit from the central bank’s “cheap” money.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

For example, if youre just here to sell sugar-water, then "innovating" slightly new flavors of soda every few months, and finding novel markets to "sell" it in (read: competencies in product innovation and mass marketing) is probably good enough. But you might get a tiny bit closer. And its those small steps that count.