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Economics

Free Services vs Privacy Online

Big data (combined with data analytics and machine learning) offers exciting opportunities to decipher patterns and solve complex problems more quickly and cheaply than ever before, but it also has the potential to infringe the privacy of individual users. Looking at a company like Evernote, which uses a freemium business model to help tens of millions of people be more productive […]

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Frameworks

Porter’s Five Forces

The Porter’s Five Forces framework is used to determine the competitive intensity and attractiveness of an industry, and is relevant in the context of entering a new market, M&A, or starting a new business. The intensity of competition will depend on the strength of the five competitive forces, however the significance of the forces will vary by […]

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Frameworks

Three C’s Framework

The Three C’s Framework may prove extremely valuable for consulting case questions. It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. It involves examining customers, competition, and the company. 1. Customers Eight (8) factors to consider when examining the customer. 1. Customer […]