Remove Marketing Remove Open-book Remove Porter
article thumbnail

Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. I think it was the graphic design of the book that first caught my eye. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

article thumbnail

How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Elon Musk’s Patent Decision Reflects Three Strategic Truths

Harvard Business Review

Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors? A mere bid for publicity , considering that Tesla hasn’t, in any formal way, cut off the possibility of future lawsuits or opened up any of its proprietary secrets. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

article thumbnail

What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social"

Harvard Business Review

Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. The specific definition in his book of the same name was how "how the Web 2.0 Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. Andrew McAfee coined the term Enterprise 2.0

Media 13
article thumbnail

Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality

Harvard Business Review

Sorrell is a wealthy man, and he said all this while at the front of the room at one of the opening events of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos , one of the world's great gatherings of those near the top of the wealth pyramid. When wealth is distributed more equally, he went on, you get more sustainable growth. No results.

Porter 18
article thumbnail

Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 20
article thumbnail

Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

I heard it in the opening remarks of WEF founder Klaus Schwab who talked about a growing phenomenon of "burn-out" among world leaders with finite energy and time to put against seemingly bottomless complexity. The presentation to 50 people was followed by a discussion of antidotes to the dangerous trends they showed.