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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. Should you follow conventional wisdom and write-up a thirty-page business plan? I first encountered the idea of developing a one-page business model in 2007 when I came across the Osterwalder model on the web. In my management 3.0

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The New Method Of Leadership Thinking

Eric Jacobson

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.”

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The Phoenix Encounter Method For Leaders

Eric Jacobson

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the new book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.”

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models.

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Why AI Will Shift Decision-Making From the C-Suite to the Frontline

Harvard Business Review

But even if an AI system gives an employee super-powered intelligence, it won’t be enough to make a timely decision if the company’s internal bureaucracy requires time-consuming pre-authorization from senior managers before acting on the decision. Another case is Unilever. AI democratization remains limited.

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The Amazon–Whole Foods Deal Means Every Other Retailer’s Three-Year Plan Is Obsolete

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. These teams value creative working environments more than hierarchical bureaucracies, working prototypes over excessive documentation, customer collaboration over fixed specifications, and responding to change over adherence to plans.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths. In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges.