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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the true paradox that smart, trailblazing companies are solving is how to outperform their competition by collaborating with their competition. Here's how and why this matters to you. Recently the CEO of a very well known consumer brand nearly scared the wits out of me.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

But to optimize your business, you must acknowledge that your information should change what you consider to be adjacent markets — and your business leaders need to make active decisions about which of these “information adjacent” markets to pursue and how. The Challenge of Building an Ecosystem.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

From the WordPerfect-Novell acquisition that led to bankruptcy, to the misfires of the Target-Neiman holiday experiment, it’s clear that despite the plethora of management literature on how to launch a successful partnership, collaborations often go bust. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”. As management professors Adam M.