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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

Harvard Business Review

Twenty years ago my friends Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema asserted in their HBR article "Customer Intimacy and other Value Disciplines" that leading companies succeed by excelling at one of three "value disciplines" — operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership — while meeting industry standards in the other two.

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Strategic Planning Steps

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Look at the diagram and decide which one is right for you (based upon your products and services, and your culture).