Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. I’ve covered tech for 20 years, so I’d interviewed people like Mark Zuckerberg and the Google founders early in their careers.

CEO 8

CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

These diverse groups of volunteer employees work across organizational boundaries and outside of their regular operational duties. Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The next morning, as Derek was driving to the office, he mulled over his relationship with Rogier.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. More on that in future posts.). Work is freed.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Imagine you’re the guy who was running the Walkman business at Sony a decade ago. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. ’ The companies exist to exploit existing businesses, not to create new ones.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. Many a company has put so much emphasis on culture that culture simply became their business as opposed to strengthening their business.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366