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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. This final chapter puts it all together.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Instead of prioritizing process optimization around inventory management, UXes dedicated to cultivating loyalty, trial and ancillary services evolve.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

But a new study on Hollywood producers in the Strategic Management Journal reminds us that it’s not that simple. The researchers behind this new study point out that recent work on RBV has focused on managers as the ones generating the revenue from the company’s resources. Sounds logical, right? box office revenue.

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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. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. It didn't work.

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Users Are the New Growth Engine

Harvard Business Review

Forrester Research predicts that by 2012 half of all consumer purchases will be either transacted online or digitally driven in some way — influenced by search, social media, or emerging digital platforms like location-based services and digitally augmented store environments. But the bigger shift is behavioral.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks.

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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.