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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces.

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How Do Consumers Choose in a World of Automated Ordering?

Harvard Business Review

Our 2017 survey of 170 top Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail CEOs, COOs, and CFOs revealed a conscious shift away from traditional mass production and mass marketing practices toward more personalized approaches. Influence vs. Affluence. Shift focus from channel strategies to consumer centricity.

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Find the Best Local Markets to Drive Growth

Harvard Business Review

Finally, we found that these super geos made it easier for companies to develop growth strategies. These super geos were local profit pools that were concentrated and big enough to offer big ROI upside for marketing and sales. Some companies we talk to are beginning to question the core assumptions of their growth strategy.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Most established businesses, however, privilege products over processes in their platform strategies. Consequently, that applications outsourcer can now go beyond customer satisfaction to influence the developer side of the process-turned-platform. Platforms, not processes, make innovations faster and easier to implement.

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

Harvard Business Review

Studying 837 mass-market movies released between 1996 and 2003, they collected data on the movies’ producers and their prior experience. The researchers controlled for several factors that could influence a movie’s performance, including its rating, the timing of its release, and whether its actors were stars.

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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. Because that's the point.

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