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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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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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Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

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For example, we are building a development platform for the iPad, and defining how it will interact with our electronic medical record system. For example, in a previous post , I described how Tesco made major strides in its supply chain management in the 1990s by applying standard process disciplines.

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Strategic Planning Steps

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Our value systems and individual beliefs are learned. Without a measurement system that you regularly update and report to your organization, you are likely not going to meet your plan or keep to it. They aren’t permanent, and yet they don’t change all that much over the course of our lives. You get what you audit.