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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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Balancing the 3 Boxes

Leading Blog

Dartmouth professor Vijay Govindarajan writes, “As much as we might pay lip service to the fact that the future will differ dramatically from the past, we often behave as though it will be exactly the same.” Vijay Govindarajan has incorporated good principles for managing change into a framework he calls The Three Box Solution.

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Reverse Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble Harvard Business School Press (2012) How and why reverse innovation can help to reverse the negative trends and tendencies that can weaken an organization Those who have read one or more of Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble’s previously published books (..)

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market. Task management. Reinventing healthcare. . around its introduction.”

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Triple the U.S.

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Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere

Harvard Business Review

Old thinking: Take existing products created for rich customers in developed markets and scale them down for emerging markets. New thinking: First develop innovative solutions that work for customers in poorer emerging markets, and then apply those innovations globally.

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The $300 House: The Performance Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The Marketing Challenge. Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. The Co-Creation Challenge.