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STRATEGY · BUSINESS · DECISION-MAKINGChannel Economics: Margin, Control, and Distribution Trade-OffsA practical guide to channel economics: margin, control, and distribution trade-offs, with the economics, decision…
Read articleSTRATEGY · POSITIONING · PRICING POWER Differentiation Strategy: How to Avoid Competing on Price Differentiation is the deliberate creation of customer value that competitors do…
Read articleSupplier concentration becomes dangerous when a small number of vendors control inputs that are difficult to replace, qualify or finance on short notice.
Read articleA deep guide to process power using Toyota, operational learning, path dependence, metrics, worked examples, and the tests that separate a real moat from good…
Read articleROIIC asks whether the next dollars invested in a business are producing enough additional operating profit to justify the capital committed.
Read articleSTRATEGY · CUSTOMER ECONOMICS · RETENTION Switching Costs: How Businesses Make Customers Stay Switching costs are the financial, procedural, relational, and psychological burdens a customer…
Read articleA diagnostic framework for separating true durable advantage from growth, scale, operational excellence, or narrative—and testing seven mechanisms that can protect superior economics.
Read articleSTRATEGY · PLATFORMS · MARKET STRUCTURE Network Effects: Types, Limits, and Competitive Advantage Network effects exist when the value of a product or service changes…
Read articleA research-led guide to the strategy of sharing scale benefits with customers, using Amazon and Costco to explain the flywheel, economics, measurement, and failure modes.
Read articleSTRATEGY · COST ECONOMICS · OPERATING MODEL Economies of Scale vs Economies of Scope Economies of scale reduce unit cost as the volume of a…
Read articleBOOKS · STRATEGY · DECISION-MAKINGCompeting on Analytics Summary: Key Ideas, Lessons, and LimitsA practical, transformative analysis of Competing on Analytics by Thomas H. Davenport &…
Read articleA serious business strategy course should teach diagnosis, competitive advantage, industry structure, resource allocation, business models, uncertainty, and execution rather than only templates and buzzwords.
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