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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. For many, this is frightening.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” To avoid that, Levitt exhorted leaders to ask themselves the seemingly obvious question – “What business are you really in?” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

Grove’s 1980 question remains as ruthlessly relevant to C-suites as Ted Levitt’s 1960 classic, “What business are you in?” They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists

Harvard Business Review

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” As Ted Levitt pointed out 55 years ago, companies develop significant myopia over time, only seeing things that are squarely in the mainstream of their market. billion versus $2.3

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To Survive, Health Care Data Providers Need to Stop Selling Data

Harvard Business Review

How the most innovative providers are creating value. The bulk of HCIT investment supports startups that sell data — clinical or operational information that is otherwise difficult for clients to obtain or to organize. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum. But we believe it’s the only option.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Levitt argued that it's always better to define a business by what consumers want than by what a company can produce. What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. bankruptcy court.

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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

In the words of Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt, “ People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. Disruptive innovation Global business' Every time a customer buys a product, they are trying to do a job that brings some value to them – and not necessarily what the product says on the label.