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When Profit and Social Impact Unite
This form of hybrid business model will lead the way toward a new economy — and the companies that figure it out won't just thrive; they will develop huge competitive advantages.
Two citizen-sector organizations — RASA, an organization dedicated to increasing the economic power of small farmers in the coastal Guerrero area, and INSO, an organization focused on water conservation in the Oaxaca area — ended up being critical partners.
Until the late 1980s, you could clearly see the difference between the business and public sectors. Business was fast-moving,
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, March 18, 2010
If the Customer Is Truly King, Then Sonoma Partners Is One Smitten Queen
So how did Chicago-based Sonoma Partners do it? First they identified an opportunity in the soft belly of the bear--in this case, Sonoma Partners realized that companies needed a competitive advantage more than ever and a good place to start is by solidifying bonds with customers. And that works out well for you, me and, clearly, Sonoma Partners.
Any time a head of a company uses the word "upswing" in detailing his business' recent success, there is a bit of a compulsion around these parts to comment on the company. Please excuse a little cheerleading.
Fast Company
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein
In fact, it turned out not to be such great leap forward, more of a cul - de -sac. From sea to land Then a few brave souls took Moodle from the vast, open sea of education to a harsher, competitive and predatory environment on land, and things moved fast. They need to share, as it lowers the costs for everyone, that’s the evolutionary advantage that Moodle delivery offers. Competitive advantage Corporate mammals wanted more autonomy. Is the educational hat on the Moodle logo a little dated and about to fall off? The word ‘ Moodle ’ was a word
Donald Clark Plan B
- Saturday, March 6, 2010
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When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Thus a key question to ask is: "Do we really want to have a two-way conversation with our employees, partners, and suppliers?"
What if you've taken a culture check-up, and your organization is not yet ready to be open and transparent to employees, customers Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 platforms, consider the following two
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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BookRenter Opens Up Textbook Rentals To Campus Bookstores And Other Partners
Partners, such as universities or campus bookstores, will be able to use BookRenter to set up a virtual store on their sites. Partners have access to the same selection of textbooks available on BookRenter’s site (which are electronically sourced from the largest textbook supplier)s. Partners can also use BookRenter’s dynamic pricing engine, which updates textbook prices in real time by responding to shifts in market supply and demand, as well Anyone who has bought a textbook, whether during college or graduate school, understands how expensive they can be. College
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
that often go unappreciated Some of the indirect ways which lead to revenue growth , user growth , and increased resistance to competition -- which in turn lead to increased subscriptions , advertising, and commission revenue -- are: Strategic Acquisition: Identifying and acquiring Web 2.0 Principles (not meant to be exhaustive) Principle 1: Web as Platform Upside: Revenue scalability (1 billion users on the Web), rapid growth potential and reach through exploitation of network effects Downside: Competition is only a URL away, often requiring significant
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
- Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Product Development 2.0
Specifically, I'm talking about building highly competitive online products by turning over non-essential control to users directly via the Web. to their individual offerings, they will reap significant competitive advantage over those not harnessing the Web to directly connect to customers and begin a rapid and never-ending innovation cycle. e-mail World Wide Web, e-mail, IM Source of Innovation: Organizations While the window on using the "2.0" quot; suffix is probably closing, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore an especially significant
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Genzyme at CGI: Global Problem-Solving Gives You a Competitive Advantage
On the flip side, you have a chance to gain a competitive advantage by creating a unique approach to making the world a better place.
Vice President, Corporate Development, Product Acquisition, and Partnering Transactions, Genzyme. "If We want to develop their respect as partners, so that we can bring forward our commercial portfolio in the future." If your corporate social responsibility (CSR) program is ancillary to your corporate strategy, it's on the chopping block--or already in the waste bin. This is especially true in today's economy.
Fast Company
- Friday, September 25, 2009
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Product Development 2.0
Specifically, I'm talking about building highly competitive online products by turning over non-essential control to users directly via the Web. to their individual offerings, they will reap significant competitive advantage over those not harnessing the Web to directly connect to customers and begin a rapid and never-ending innovation cycle. e-mail World Wide Web, e-mail, IM Source of Innovation: Organizations While the window on using the "2.0" quot; suffix is probably closing, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore an especially significant
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Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
He's a senior partner in a large consulting company and has worked in one large company or another for the past 35 years. That gives small companies a huge advantage.
Trust is the new competitive advantage.
I just heard a story from a client that's hard to believe but true.
In the worst economy we've seen in decades, Passlogix, a privately owned 100-person software development company, just received over a million dollars in prepaid commitments for the next three to five years of service.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 23, 2009
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Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Battle for E-Books
What happens then is that competitive advantage moves from vertically-integrated players who 'own' a particular kind of solution, to players who specialize in what you can think of as part of an unbundled solution. In the case of personal computers, it was of course Microsoft that developed an advantage by both dominating the operating system space and by partnering with Intel to take the lead in microprocessors. There's a battle emerging over the industry structure of e-books: Amazon has one approach, Barnes & Noble another. Will the clash play out like the computer
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
that often go unappreciated Some of the indirect ways which lead to revenue growth , user growth , and increased resistance to competition -- which in turn lead to increased subscriptions , advertising, and commission revenue -- are: Strategic Acquisition: Identifying and acquiring Web 2.0 Principles (not meant to be exhaustive) Principle 1: Web as Platform Upside: Revenue scalability (1 billion users on the Web), rapid growth potential and reach through exploitation of network effects Downside: Competition is only a URL away, often requiring significant
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
- Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Why Do We Care about Disruption?
The goal is to build a sizable business with defensible competitive advantage that earns attractive returns. You have to line up partners, suppliers, and distributors to support your business together.
The other week, two of my colleagues were engaged in a fierce debate about whether a particular business was or not in fact "disruptive." When they asked my opinion, I surprised them by answering, "I don't really care."
"But
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, January 22, 2010
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