First of all, what the hell is a business model anyway? As with many terms used in strategy and business it is often used in different ways and interpreted differently by different people. Lots of entrepreneurs and misguided bloggers will conflate advertising and business model, but this is a mistake. Advertising could be your “revenue model” but it is not your business model.
Drive a hybrid. Buy carbon-dioxide offset points when flying. Use the bike. Things you and I can do.
Renewable energy. R&D funding. Taxes on fuel. Tax rebates. Stuff our governments can do.
All good, all important.
Then I read Robert's post about the trend of VCs leaving the computer world and embracing environmentalism - investing in energy saving technologies and the like.
The idea of "customer orientation" comes up almost all the time during my meetings with clients. It is generally define as an organization culture in which all executives and employees are committed to the continuous creation of customer value of delivering on their needs.
...is not the turbulence: it is to act with yesterday's logic. "
I love that quote from Peter Drucker as it describes perfectly how marketing is struggling to adapt to create and deliver value in today's experience-centred, co-creative markets. Here is a quick contrast between the "old" and the "new" marketing logics:
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