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Why Large Companies Struggle With Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach. The windfall of goodies follows.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Don’t answer the question with technologies, offerings, or categories.

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Courage Under Fire

Women's Leadership Exchange

If you are working in a corporation, you need courage to face each day, not knowing what business decisions are being made behind closed doors that will affect you, your family and your coworkers. If you are a business owner, you need courage to change your business model to meet the faced paced changes of today.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Authority on new technology and communication. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Startups / Small Business / Family Coaches.

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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S after chemicals). This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based incumbents.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. The unit has fewer than 100 people divided among data science/analytics, technology, and social media.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business Review

New business models can hurt a company’s existing businesses; however, if they work, they can enhance overall performance. These new entrants often bring new business models, and thus measure performance differently than incumbents. Against which metrics are they building their businesses?