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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Empathy Map looks like this: In this chapter the authors walk you through processes to arrive a enhanced design like Customer Insights, ideation, providing an introduction to the value of visual thinking, how to use prototyping, story telling, and Scenario Planning. This final chapter puts it all together. I really enjoyed this book.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Six months after that, we plan to go to public beta. We are sort of playing around with the semantic web and we may be at the forefront of Web 3.0. We are currently in closed alpha and will go into a private beta soon. We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services.

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The Founder of Dogfish Head on Flouting a 500-Year-Old Beer Law

Harvard Business Review

By the time I opened my business in 1995, homogenous industrial light lager dominated the commercial beer landscape worldwide. I first read about Germany’s beer purity law in the New York Public Library in 1993, when I was doing research on my business plan. They founded Anheuser-Busch in the United States and Tsingtao in China.

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The Different Approaches Firms Use to Set Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The Explainer: Blue Ocean Strategy. Our interview data shows tremendous variation in archetype within each industry and across firms of similar size, which suggests that the right archetype for a given firm depends on subtle features of the company and its context. Related Video. Make the competition irrelevant.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.

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How to Execute a 15-Word Strategy Statement

Harvard Business Review

There is no shortage of stories and anecdotes to illustrate how the best strategies can nearly always be reduced down to a brief but powerful statement and even more ink has been spilled describing the dangers of strategy statements that read like detailed action plans. My approach is based on narrative techniques.