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Exploring the Power of Collaborative Competition

N2Growth Blog

Knowledge Sharing and Learning: Coopetition enables the exchange of expertise, resources, and best practices among competitors. In this mutually beneficial environment, companies can accelerate their learning curves, share risks, and foster a culture of innovation.

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Uber’s Food Delivery Experiment in Barcelona

Harvard Business Review

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. This is what I recommend to my students who want to launch a disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry: Don’t do it illegally or allegally.

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3D Printing Will Revive Conglomerates

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Everyone will have the same machines and everyone will be down the same learning curve on how to use the machines.