Robert David Hughes
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To build a sustainable, diversified business requires continuous search for ways to parlay available scarce resources into new opportunities for profit. This book describes a framework to identify new business opportunities. Leveraging scarce resources into new business angles can increase profit, improve the sustainability of profits, and diversify the contributors of profit, and thereby increase business value. The scarce resources considered are...
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In choosing a price type an organisation signals its strategic intent, as it does with its choice of market positioning strategy. Price type, unlike market positioning strategy is an observable signal, and one that competitors respond to.
There are multiple roots underpinning the formulation of the price types. These roots include the characteristics of the contract type, availability of information, economic effects to be activated, and bargaining...
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Core competencies are the most important scarce resource a business can create. Core competencies stem from the business's accumulated experience, and its organisation wide systems and processes. Where these drive declining cost economies that result in the business having lower average unit costs than competitors, then it has a competitive advantage.
There are several reasons for being interested in the subject of core competencies, the main ones...
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Multisided Platforms: Evaluating launch conditions deals with a specific type of organisation, the multisided platform that operates in multisided markets with positive feedback effects. These are some of the most exciting and valuable but rare organisations. Examples can be found in a variety of settings from postal delivery, shopping malls, print publishing, open source software projects, through to internet based social media, to name a few instances.
The...
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What are the alternative business models available for start-ups? What are the business models available for a business in crisis? Why is there a range of different business models? What are the trade-offs between different business models? How can understanding the determinants of a business model be used to create competitive advantage? How can these be used to leverage existing core competencies into new opportunities? What are the different ways...