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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Quick, tell me your organization’s business model. Can you tell me what a business model is? It’s a lot more than just making money – making money is the output, not even the outcome, let alone the model. Your organization, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has a business model.

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Five Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation

LDRLB

millions US nonprofits don’t support themselves through “competing” or creating better products, services, or business models. Historically, the typical nonprofit business model has been based on dependence. Social business is gaining steam. But it acts an awful lot like a business. Most of the 1.5

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business Review

If the erosion of a market requires a new business model, that’s change management. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. For example, Gary Kaplan, president of XL Catlin’s North American Construction insurance, got his division started by formulating some major strategic goals.

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

As Zingales’s University of Chicago colleague Steven Kaplan wrote in a separate paper , Facebook and its fellow tech giants “used market forces to their advantage, are profitable as a result, and certainly now enjoy some market power. But they didn’t attain that position through crony capitalism.

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Don't Wait for Change

Harvard Business Review

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. In the United States, wholesale distribution is a $4.8 trillion industry that employs 5.6