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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness. Platforms, not processes, make innovations faster and easier to implement.

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To Stay Ahead of Disruption's Curve, Follow Lead Users

Harvard Business Review

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Most are accompanied by other restrictions, such as taxes and smoking bans in the case of cigarettes, which means it is difficult to disentangle the effects of warnings from other factors that influence behavior. Second, keep in mind that when orchestrated correctly, warnings influence producers as well as consumers. A 2003 U.S.

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Beyond Mass Customization

Harvard Business Review

Rather, they focus on markets (anonymous agglomerations of customers) rather than on any real, living, breathing individual customer. Most recognize that there are no truly mass markets any more. But we must go beyond looking at market segments and niches to embracing the truism that every customer is his own market.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. That would have naturally put them into conversations with influencers who could have an interest in what the company creates. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Because that's the point.

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