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The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
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high growth with a bad business design destroys value faster.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
This value profile, in turn, will model how the target customers are likely to perceive the competitive set and what position they are likely to accord to a new player coming into that set. More specifically, creating the competition involves using two competitors as beacons so that the market can locate your company’s unique value proposition. The
... See moreGeoffrey A. Moore • Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)
New titles might not have increased his influence. By the start of the 1960s Baker was engaged in a willfully obscure second career, much like the one Mervin Kelly had formerly conducted, a career that ran not sequentially like some men’s—a stint in government following a stint in business, or vice versa—but simultaneously, so that Baker’s various
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Reshaping the business of shipping was left to an outsider with no maritime experience whatsoever, a self-made trucking magnate named Malcom Purcell McLean.
Marc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Clay Christensen found that successful managers “planned to fail early and inexpensively in the search for the market for a disruptive technology. They found that their markets generally coalesced through an iterative process of trial, learning, and trial again.”
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
We need to discover the product to be built, and we need to deliver that product to market.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
“What changes in scope do I need to make to remain customer-relevant, to generate high profits, and to…
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