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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Magretta, 2002). Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000). Magretta 2002).

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Although its sales of new books were growing very healthily, in 2002 Amazon introduced a service whereby people could sell second-hand books through the company’s website. By 2015 Amazon Web Services was the world’s leading provider of Cloud infrastructure services.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Another frequent sign is that the number of ideas for further improvements is decreasing, and existing customers are increasingly turning to alternative products (Ovans, 2015). Why Business Model Innovations can fail What distinguishes a successful business model innovation from a worse or even failed business model innovation?

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B 2015: AT&T buys DirecTV for $49B. It led to a lot of spending with little success: 1999: AT&T pays $44B to buy the cable company TCI, creating AT&T Broadband. after having invested about $58B more for a total of $102B in AT&T Broadband.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. Norton & Company; May 2002. Internal Innovation Networks as a Basis for Corporate Intrapreneurship ; LinkedIn; September 29, 2015. .; The Knowledge Creating Company ; Oxford University Press; May 18, 1995. and McDermott, R.; Buchanen, M.

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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

It became PayPal and he held 11% of the stock when it was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5B. He has funded development of the idea and in 2015 he announced a competition for designs for a Hyperloop pod prototype. Zip2 was an early internet success and in 1999 he sold it to Compaq Computer Corporation for $330m.