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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. Brandbenburger and Barry J.

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If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided?

Harvard Business Review

More and more companies embrace consumers as "co-creation" partners in their innovation efforts, instead of as buyers at the end of a value chain. For example, IBM's co-created product lines account for approximately 20% of its revenue and many of its innovations. It's a shift from keeping people out to letting people in.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. Often, the last thing managers are encouraged to do is think outside of their industry. Bloomberg realized that the ease of information sharing made innovation in consumption a key form of differentiation in the industry.