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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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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Taiwan, and South Korea, respectively — agreed to fund a novel technology development program at ASML, a leading equipment manufacturer based in the Netherlands. The program creates risk sharing, and the results of ASML’s development programs will be available to every semiconductor manufacturer without restriction.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Strategies for staying ahead. 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.”.