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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

More troubling, our own research shows that even when business leaders are proactive resource allocators, they are still hesitant to invest in new business models. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team. You can take our online leadership investment style assessment).

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

An organization is essentially the sum total of its physical, financial, human, intellectual, and relationship capital. Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. Organizational transformation must begin with a leadership transformation.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Intellectual capital.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. An equally good term for this master plan is DNA.