Business Models
When Losing Money Is Strategic — and When It Isn’t
Unit economics can help entrepreneurs determine if scaling their business will make it profitable.
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Getting Ahead of Rising Labor Costs
To remain competitive, companies must rethink their approach to front-line compensation, job design, and career paths.
Developing Strategy
Open Up Your Strategy
A more inclusive strategy-making process is needed when disruptions come from all directions.
Business Models
Critical Success Factors for Achieving ROI From AI Initiatives
Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan share findings from a recent Return on AI Institute study for which they interviewed more than 45 executives about their organizations’ uses of artificial intelligence.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Setting the Rules of the Road
Five building blocks of ecosystem governance help leaders create value and manage risk.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Sharing Value for Ecosystem Success
Ecosystem success requires that both leaders and followers avoid the trap of egocentric thinking.
Business Models
Small Stake, Big Voice
Having a minority stake in a business partnership doesn’t always mean having fewer rights.
Developing Strategy
Great Strategy Considers More Than Customers and Investors
Great strategy addresses investor and consumer interests and also recognizes the value of nontraditional stakeholders.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Leveraging Subscriptions and Marketplaces for Platform Success
Barry Libert, CEO of AIMatters, describes how subscription models and a platform-first mindset can help organizations define valuable new offerings for customers.
Business Models
The Best of This Week
New research on retail profitability, the promise of platform-based business models, and retraining employees to meet revised strategic priorities.
Business Models
How to Win at the Platform Game
There’s power in integrating subscription-based software, platform marketplaces, and machine learning.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Interactive: The Workforce Ecosystem Perspective
Use this dashboard to benchmark your organization’s readiness to adopt a workforce ecosystem approach.
Business Models
The Best of This Week
Assessing effective frameworks, managing the risks of digital personas, and benefiting at work from volunteerism.
Business Models
What Makes Successful Frameworks Rise Above the Rest
Seven evaluation criteria leaders can use to assess and strengthen the business frameworks they create.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Workforce Ecosystems
Our new report, “Workforce Ecosystems: A New Strategic Approach to the Future of Work,” describes how many organizations are recognizing that workforce ecosystems offer a productive approach to strategic workforce management.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Our Guide to the Spring 2021 Issue
In our new spring issue: platform-based ecosystems, blockchain, data failures, and misbehaving leaders.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Platform Scaling, Fast and Slow
Conventional thinking says platforms must scale fast, but that can be unwise in the face of regulatory risk.
Platforms & Ecosystems
How Healthy Is Your Business Ecosystem?
Use these metrics and red-flag indicators to boost your chances of business ecosystem success.
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Best of This Week
An innovation framework for COVID-19, circular business models, and the advantages of a diverse board.
Sustainability
The Four Fatal Mistakes Holding Back Circular Business Models
Incumbent manufacturing companies face four key challenges as they shift to circular business models.