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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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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. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines. Consequently, that applications outsourcer can now go beyond customer satisfaction to influence the developer side of the process-turned-platform.

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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

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

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