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Building a successful platform business

Tom Spencer

It is cliché to talk of Airbnb as the hotel company with no properties, or Uber as the taxi company with no cars. In 2018, marketplace platforms – products or services that mediate transactions in other products and/or services between two or more groups – are ubiquitous in many industries.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). million per launch. & Gołembski, G.

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When Should Multinationals Move Back into Venezuela?

Harvard Business

It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business

On the one hand, you have Prime Minister Modi declaring at the 2018 World Economic Forum that India’s economy, already the fifth largest in the world, will double to $5 trillion by 2025. While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences.

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The New Pressures Facing CMOs and How to Overcome Them

Harvard Business

A new study out by Spencer Stuart shows an insane number of chief marketing officers who’ve been fired during 2018. I served as CMO for Deloitte Consulting and then Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and when I have coached executive teams through transformations, I’ve seen many teams at an impasse with their CMO.

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