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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. I really enjoyed this book.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business.