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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. Your company needs to either evolve its competitive strategy to embrace selective collaboration with rivals downstream and upstream, or prepare to become obsolete.

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

Harvard Business Review

All these ideas embody "us vs. them" thinking, which is quite prevalent, albeit more subtle, in business: There are those that decide strategy, and those that execute the strategy. 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.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

The question is what investment strategy a given company should follow: don’t invest, invest alone, or coinvest? Benefits and risks of co-opetition. Guidelines for selecting an appropriate model. And if the company decides to coinvest, which ownership and operation model would be most appropriate?

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Strategies for staying ahead. But the tools we have to evaluate and reward managers point them away from the strategies that leverage information. So we’re left in a situation where information-based strategies rarely get the attention they deserve (or require). Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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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.”.