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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

That strategy could be especially effective if the company priced access at the point just below the competitions' 'go/no-go' price for developing similar technology. This insight shaped and informed venerable brands' efforts to collectively develop new geographic markets while maintaining their competitive differences.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

What’s important is that your management team is aware of these issues and can use that understanding to develop a solution that fits your business and allows you to deliver the most value to your customers. Among other things, managers also need to manage the development of ecosystems.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. Nalebuff have written in their book Co-Opetition , businesses that form co-opetitions become more competitive by cooperating. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”.