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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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Technology and its role in travel 2.0 B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas.

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How Do Consumers Choose in a World of Automated Ordering?

Harvard Business Review

The term “frictionless commerce” is widely used to describe how digital technologies are blending product purchases seamlessly into consumers’ daily lives. Influence vs. Affluence. We see peer influence as a growing force in determining where consumers spend money and what attracts them to brands.

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Users Are the New Growth Engine

Harvard Business Review

Today it's rare to find a CEO who won't acknowledge the impact digital technology is having on their business. The purchasing habits and attitudes of today's teenagers and twenty-somethings are completely different from those exhibited by today's mass market. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Consequently, that applications outsourcer can now go beyond customer satisfaction to influence the developer side of the process-turned-platform. Platforms, not process, increasingly impact and influence User Experience – for customers, clients, channels and suppliers alike.

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

Harvard Business Review

They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. It didn't work.

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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. No, we need to do things entirely differently. Today, many 800-pound gorillas look more like dinosaurs.

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