Business Model Generation

Business [Re]Ignition: The 7 Rock Solid Elements of Execution Business Model Innovation – Part 1

by Donald McMichael
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In any high stakes ven­ture it is vital, whether for your­self or a client, to have a sus­tain­able edge. War­ren Buf­fet calls it a Durable Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tage and Michael Porter refers to it as a Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tage. Regard­less of the phras­ing, the con­cept is the same. Never move into, or stay in, a space where you […]

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Business [Re]Ignition: The 7 Rock Solid Elements of Executing Business Model Innovation

by Donald McMichael
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If you’ve been liv­ing under a rock for the last five years… First off, wel­come back we need you. Sec­ond, let me get you up to speed. The hottest two busi­ness con­cepts over the last 24 months have been pivot and busi­ness model inno­va­tion. Busi­ness Model Innovation(BMI): the pro­ces by which an orga­ni­za­tion rein­vents how it does […]

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Working on Growing Your Business? Read this. – Week’s 5 Best Posts

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Lever­ag­ing a busi­ness’ net­work to develop bet­ter solu­tions to wicked prob­lems Busi­ness model gen­er­a­tion, the who (putting together the idea tar­get mar­ket pro­file), the what (your point of excel­lence), and the how (lever­ag­ing your unique assets). The path to bet­ter decision-making As, […]

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Why Some Businesses Almost Always Make the Right Moves – Week’s 5 Best Posts

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Bet­ter busi­ness mod­el­ing, the why (cap­ture an unfair advan­tage), how (…to main­tain it), and when (6 signs that you need to rinse and repeat). The art of a sweet sci­ence; finan­cial mod­el­ing it’s not just about the num­bers. The Busi­ness Model Can­vas – an entrepreneur-centric remix. […]

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Retooling Your Business Analysis Perspective; 5 Posts to Get You Started

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Why a retooled FP&A (Finance Plan­ning & Analy­sis) is retak­ing a promi­nent seat at the at the lead­er­ship table. Gain­ing busi­ness activ­ity clar­ity by lever­ag­ing your CRM process to fuel accu­rate sales pro­jec­tions. New busi­ness model gen­er­a­tion — media and tech­nol­ogy their never end­ing adop­tion path. As, always […]

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Sharpen Your Reception with Valuable Content

by Donald McMichael
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Here is why two scary insights for wire­less / mobile net­work ser­vice providers are a golden path for you and I.  First the setup. Arieso, one the of world’s lead­ing providers of mobile net­work man­age­ment soft­ware solu­tions, just released the results of a new study, “Recent Smart­phone Trends & the Extreme Data Use”, that showed on […]

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New Product Launch; Why Some Businesses Almost Always Nail It

by Donald McMichael
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The secret is that they don’t…  It just seems that way because they have assim­i­lated the art of exper­i­men­ta­tion into their DNA. And why have they adopted this men­tal­ity? To val­i­date learn­ing because what often seems like a no-brainer really isn’t. Intrigued?   Mar­ket pen­e­tra­tion strate­gies; from my point of view — hav­ing been charged with […]

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