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

The BMI Lab Blog

The holistic approach of how a company is implementing a strategy and works its way towards its vision is described by the logic of all dimensions of its business model – the WHO, WHAT, HOW and VALUE. In opposition a strategy is a plan to achieve a unique, differentiated positioning over the competition. KG Magretta, J.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

2002 – The social network By this time, social media was rapidly growing with the launch of LinkedIn and MySpace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004. 2006 – Skills strategy part two This was followed by the Leitch Review of Skills published in 2006. The digital revolution. This opened up new possibilities for online social learning.

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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

Foresight and Forecast – How do we create future insights that guide our strategy and opportunity discovery? 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.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. There was no way a cost cutting strategy would save KMart or Sears. As a result, in October, 2015 The Washington Post had more unique web visitors than the vaunted New York Times. Chart Source: Yahoo Finance 5/13/16. What should Lampert have done?

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