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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

The answer reveals the critical role business models play in determining competitive winners in times of disruptive change. But there is nothing inherently wrong with digital pennies, if you have the right business model. Growing Digital Business. The combined market value of those four companies? Insight Center.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. It's the business model, stupid. What lessons can we take from Kodak's struggles?

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. Their failure is usually an inability to truly embrace the new business models the disruptive change opens up.

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Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

Harvard Business Review

There are some things that only large companies can do, because they have unique assets like technology, channel relationships, relationships with regulators, scale operations, and so on. Those tensions will always make a company move more slowly than an unburdened startup.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.