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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

Grow selectively (that is, where they can claim profitable market share) and in ways suitable for the local environment, not everywhere all at once. Leading-edge firms are using asset-light, digital, or e-commerce-centric business models to enter into new markets and expand rapidly. Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid).

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A Framework for Strategists Assessing Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. However, the sources of demand in each country differ, which will affect your strategy.

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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Once again, he had turned around a struggling company, transformed its business model and made its operations hum. Before long, Blockbuster was gaining nearly half of all new subscribers in the online rental market. When Netflix emerged as a disruptive threat, Antioco met it head on.

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Why Elon Musk’s New Strategy Makes Sense

Harvard Business Review

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Profit maximization (short-term): A shipping company increases freight rates by 50% to benefit from a capacity shortage in the market, even though doing so will strike customers as exploitative and damage loyalty. The most prevalent tension to resolve is between market share (or sales revenue) and margin.

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The Art of Crafting a 15-Word Strategy Statement

Harvard Business Review

Many people believe that its success is rooted in its business model; others point to the service experience. For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. Most businesses try to build their market around what they offer. IKEA is a company that exemplifies the power of strategic clarity.