January 2010

Have You Already Killed Your Next Big Thing?

By mark - Posted on January 6th, 2010

Harvard Business Review The Conversation

By Mark W. Johnson

As we close the books on 2009 and, with the Federal Reserve, look to 2010 with "guarded optimism," I'll bet no one is adding to their New Year's list the resolution: "Ignore growth opportunities." And yet, odds are that someone in your company has already thought up its next great growth opportunity. And suggested it at some point. And gotten no response.

A New Framework for Business Models

By mark - Posted on January 22nd, 2010

Harvard Business Review The Conversation

By Mark W. Johnson

Quick: Describe your company's business model.

Having trouble? That wouldn't surprise me. In reality, there isn't really any consensus about what the term "business model" even means. Suggestions range from the all-encompassing, everything-in-your-value-chain approach to the reductionist "A business model is nothing else than a representation of how an organization makes (or intends to make) money."