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IBM: Business Model Innovators Blow Away Margin Growth
Submitted by willow on Sun, 2009-04-05 16:44.
From the SocialEdge Blog: "IBM Global's 2006 report (pdf version here) : Business model innovation: the new route to competitive advantage " includes a striking graph illustrating the finding of IBM's financial analysts that "companies that put more emphasis on business model innovation experienced significantly better operating margin growth (over a five-year period) than their peers." And business model innovation is something that lies at the very heart of social entrepreneurship."
Of particular interest to us as we are working on a project to help solve the global e-waste problem, are descriptions by authors John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan of three styles of business model used by leading social entrepreneurs:
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