Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings. Challenge Business Model Assumptions. The first step is to evaluate assumptions about the business model.

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Supply Chain ROI Business Model Emotional Intelligence 153

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Regardless of how fractured business focus can become, people are at the center of everything that brings business success. There is a fundamental human need to feel connected to others and the depth and quality of that connection initiates and fosters unity. Deutser : Organizations are made up of people.

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Open-book Construction Business Model Books 93

Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

They will use them to develop new products and services, to build new channels, to elevate their talent, to increase their business resilience, and to develop entirely new business models along the way. Sensors are used to make products, infrastructure, and environments, more intelligent and more responsive to human needs.

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Innovation Supply Chain Technology Wireless 266

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. When drivers of change bump up against consumers’ immovable human needs and wants tension arises. You’ll agree that these desires don’t come and go from season to season.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. The Value of Human Needs.

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Business Model Human Needs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So, you act like an anthropologist to understand human needs and problems before jumping to solutions. Most of us in business, if we need to discover how to do something new, use PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheets to rationalize our approach.

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Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 13