Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Competitors will be recast as allies, as rival companies will have to work together to achieve more complex technical innovations. Such “co-opetition” will require leaders to maintain a difficult dual perspective – rivals must be simultaneously seen as both vital partners and market threats.

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Co-Opetition McClelland Leadership Emotional Intelligence 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

More and more companies embrace consumers as "co-creation" partners in their innovation efforts, instead of as buyers at the end of a value chain. For example, IBM's co-created product lines account for approximately 20% of its revenue and many of its innovations. It's a shift from keeping people out to letting people in.

Co-Opetition 9

Co-Opetition Business Model Politics Education 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead of using traditional tools to compete in an environment of clear customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors, we find ourselves in an era of “ Co-opetition.” Bloomberg realized that the ease of information sharing made innovation in consumption a key form of differentiation in the industry.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. Nalebuff have written in their book Co-Opetition , businesses that form co-opetitions become more competitive by cooperating. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”.

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Co-Opetition Nalebuff Licensing Cooper 8