Raj Echambadi: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations
Raj Echambadi: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations
ORGANIZATIONS
RAJ ECHAMBADI
Lesson 1: Executing
Innovative Business Models
How Do Innovative Business Models
Help Companies?
TRAVELER’S CHECKS FROM
AMERICAN EXPRESS
Consumers
CoolKid1993 (2008)
American
Merchants
Express
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DINERS CLUB CREDIT CARD
Consumers
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APPLE iPOD
+
Chabe01 (2013)
Karonen (2006)
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SONGS DOWNLOADED ON ITUNES!
12
Songs (in Billions)
10
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Year
Source: Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store
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Plans with innovative products are not enough;
they need to be complemented with an appropriate
business model.
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BUSINESS MODEL: WHY AND HOW?
A business model, for a company, represents a better way of doing business than
existing alternatives at accomplishing their strategy.
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BUSINESS MODEL DEFINED
A cohesive business system that reflects the economic logic of the firm -- how the
company can use its capabilities in order to create value for its customers and
capture value back from customers.
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A business model can help new
businesses; it can identify innovative
opportunities of doing business
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Selling things
Making things Distribute, sell, and
Source and service
manufacture
Company-side Customer-side
Source: Magretta, Joan (2002), “Why Business Models Matter,” Harvard Business Review.
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HP IBM
Consumer
Apple
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Dell Gateway Consumer
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Improve/tweak existing model to
offer better value/revenue sources
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Connormah (2011)
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AMAZON
Launched in 1995
Consumers
Source: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, 2010,
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AMAZON
Launched in 1995
Consumers
Amazon
Source: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, 2010,
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AMAZON
Launched in 1995
Consumers
Merchants Amazon
Source: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, 2010,
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AMAZON
Consumers
Source: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, 2010,
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AMAZON
Consumers
Amazon
Source: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, 2010,
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AMAZON
Consumers
Merchants Amazon
Source: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, 2010,
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A business model is not the same as
strategy.
It is a self-contained system that does not
involve competition
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A strategy is a broad plan to
differentiate the enterprise either
through low-cost leadership or value
differentiation and thereby derive a
competitive advantage
Source: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan Enric Ricart. “From Strategy onto Business Models and Tactics.“ Special Issue on Business Models Long
MODULE 4 Range Planning 43, no. 2 (April 2010).
Strategy Business Model
Source: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan Enric Ricart. “From Strategy onto Business Models and Tactics.“ Special Issue on Business Models Long
MODULE 4 Range Planning 43, no. 2 (April 2010).
Tactics
Strategy Business Model
(Execution)
Source: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan Enric Ricart. “From Strategy onto Business Models and Tactics.“ Special Issue on Business Models Long
MODULE 4 Range Planning 43, no. 2 (April 2010).
IKEA embarked on a low-cost, convenience-
oriented strategy. Built a business model around
that strategy and executed it to perfection
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IKEA-side Consumer-side
Design Quality
Modular furniture Stylish products
Volumes and scale Convenience
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Stylish design
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Stylish design Quality products
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Stylish design Quality products Customer loyalty
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Stylish Quality Customer Enhanced
design products loyalty revenues
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Modular design
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Long-term
Modular design
suppliers
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Long-term Lower supply-
Modular design
suppliers side costs
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Lower Cost
Modular Long-term
supply-side savings for
Design suppliers
costs consumers
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Enhanced
Modular Product Cross-selling
sales and
design variety opportunities
revenues
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Ease of
assembly
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Ease of Immediate
assembly gratification
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Ease of Immediate
Impulse buying
assembly gratification
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Enhanced
Ease of Immediate Impulse
sales and
assembly gratification buying
volumes
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Enhanced
Ease of Immediate Impulse Supply-side
sales and
assembly gratification buying scale
volumes
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VIRTUOUS CYCLES STRENGTHEN THE
BUSINESS MODEL
Supply-side Demand-side
Customer
Design
Value
Modular
Furniture
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BUILDING AND SUSTAINING INNOVATIVE
ORGANIZATIONS
RAJ ECHAMBADI
Lesson 2: Executing
Innovative Business Models
Elements of a Business Model and
Business Model Canvas
COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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COMPONENTS OF A BUSINESS MODEL
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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CUSTOMER VALUE PROPOSITION (CVP)
CVP
CVP
CVP
CVP
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Physical
Resources
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Physical
Human
Resources Talent
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Physical
Human
Resources Talent
Intangible
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Physical
Human
Financial Resources Talent
Intangible
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Human
Resources Talent
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Resources
Intangible
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Financial Resources
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PROCESSES
Source: Johnson, Christensen, and Hagermann, 2008, Reinventing Business Model, Harvard Business Review.
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SYNERGIES AMONG THE COMPONENTS
LEAD TO VIRTUOUS CYCLES
Value
capture
Value
Creation
Capabilities
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BUILDING AND SUSTAINING INNOVATIVE
ORGANIZATIONS
RAJ ECHAMBADI
Lesson 3: Executing
Innovative Business Models
Designing Innovative Business Models
BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Relationships
Value Customer
Value
Propositions Creation Segments
Revenues Channels
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Relationships
Value Customer
Propositions Segments
Revenues Channels
Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
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WHAT IS THE VALUE PROPOSITION?
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WHO ARE THE SEGMENTS?
Segments
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WHO ARE THE SEGMENTS?
Mass
Segments
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WHO ARE THE SEGMENTS?
Mass
Multi-
Segments segment
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WHO ARE THE SEGMENTS?
Mass
Multi-
Segments segment
Platform
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WHO ARE THE SEGMENTS?
Mass
Multi-
Niche Segments segment
Platform
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HOW WILL WE REACH SEGMENTS
THROUGH THE CHANNELS?
Mass
Multi-segment
Niche
Platform
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Segments
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Low-touch
engagement
Segments
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Low-touch
engagement
Social
Segments Communities
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Low-touch
engagement
Social
Segments Communities
Co-creation
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Low-touch
engagement
Co-creation
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Social
Segments Communities
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Segments
Co-creation
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High touch
engagement Segments
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Resources Relationships
Value Customer
Partners
Capabilities Propositions Segments
Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
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WHAT RESOURCES SHOULD WE USE?
Intangible
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WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS?
Joint venture
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WHAT ARE THE ACTIVITIES?
The things that a company should do!
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Resources Relationships
Value Customer
Partners Propositions Segments
Costs Revenues
Value Capture
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WHAT ARE THE REVENUES AND COSTS?
Revenues
How will we make money?
Costs
What does it cost to make our product?
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Resources Relationships
Value Customer
Partners Propositions Segments
Costs Revenues
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ILLUSTRATION OF THE BUSINESS
MODEL CANVAS
An example from Metro newspapers:
Robert G. Picard, “Strategic Responses to Free Distribution Daily Newspapers,” JMM, 2, no. 3 (2001): 167-172, http://journals.sfu.ca/mediajournal/index.php/jmm/article/viewFile/178/61.
MODULE 4 Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Resources Relationships
Value Customer
Partners Value
Propositions Creation Segments
Costs Revenues
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Transactive
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Transactive
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Transactive
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Transactive
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Transactive
Resources
Basic news to Relationships Urban
Partners
Capabilities fill time. FREE. commuters
Self-serve
Activities Revenues
Captive audience Advertisers
for ad messages Salesforce
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
Resources Relationships
Value Customer
Partners Propositions Segments
Costs Revenues
Value Capture
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS
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DESIGNING INNOVATIVE BUSINESS MODELS
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ASSESS. WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE?
Outline the current business models in the industry. What are the assumptions on
creating value?
Evaluate the context. What are the key trends that may impact the business in
the future?
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QUESTION: WHAT IF?
Question the assumptions.
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Pay-as-you-go Subscription model
© Amazon (2011)
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Sell a product Sell a service
Hilti AG (2013)
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Integrated Value Chain Disintermediated Value Chain
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Integrated Value Chain Disintermediated Value Chain
Rand (1972)
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Asset-heavy and Asset-light and
control resources orchestrate resources
Airbnb (2016)
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Asset-heavy and Asset-light and
control resources orchestrate resources
Airbnb (2016)
Uber (2014)
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Sell a complete product Sell a fractional product
NetJets (2017)
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Razor-blade model Reverse razor-blade model
Amazon.com (2011)
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REFRAME IN LIGHT OF THE CONTEXT
Reframe. Based on your analyses, what are the opportunities? Within the
company, better leverage of resources, and/or delighting its customers?
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Design the new innovative model. Check. Pilot-
test. Iterate. Learn. Scale.
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CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS MODELS IN
THE ERA OF DIGITIZATION
Long-tail
Platform Bundling
Crowd-sourced
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LONG-TAIL
User:Husky (2006)
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WHY IS LONG TAIL GETTING A LOT OF PLAY?
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PRODUCT AVAILABILITY IN ONLINE AND
PHYSICAL STORES
Product Large online retailer Large brick and mortar
retailer
Books 3,000,000, 40,000-100,000
DVDs 18,000 500-1,500
Digital Cameras 213 36
Flatbed scanners 171 13
Source: Byrnjolfsson, Hu, and Smith, “From Niches to Riches: Anatomy of the Long Tail,” Sloan Management Review, 2008
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PLATFORM MODELS
Well-executed platforms enjoy increasing returns to scale because of network
effects.
Pricing is complicated. Understand the “subsidy” and “money” side of the platform
and then price appropriately.
Buyers Sellers
Buyers Platform
Platform Sellers
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CROWD-SOURCED MODELS
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© Kickstarter
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InnoCentive (2016a)
InnoCentive (2016b)
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BUILDING AND SUSTAINING INNOVATIVE
ORGANIZATIONS
RAJ ECHAMBADI
Lesson 4: Executing
Innovative Business Models
Contemporary Business Models in the
Era of Digitization
BUNDLED MODELS
Offering several disparate products into a combined bundle. Subscription is a
form of bundling.
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WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR ARR AND ADELE
Andrew Akila
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CHARGING HIGH FOR ARR AND ADELE
Andrew Akila
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CHARGING LOW FOR ARR AND ADELE
Andrew Akila
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BUNDLING FOR ARR AND ADELE
Andrew Akila
Album by AR Rahman $10 $20
Album by Adele $20 $9
Bundles product of ARR $30 $29
and Adele
Total revenue: 2x$29 = $58
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For all-digital products, with zero or low marginal
costs and high fixed costs, bundling large numbers
of information goods is a profitable strategy
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APPLICATION CORNER
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Penguin Random House (2016)
REVENUES AND COSTS OF PHYSICAL
NEWSPAPERS
Advertising revenues and
Revenues sales of individual newspaper
copies
Costs
Gathering news, newspaper operations,
and distribution, sales, and service.
Source: Vogel, H, Entertainment Industry Economics, 7th edition, page 343;
Pew Research Center, Accessed at http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/newspapers-fact-sheet/
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Hal Varian’s presentation: Accessed at https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_events/how-will-journalism-survive-internet-age/varian.pdf
Print is still a common way of reading newspapers.
But newspaper advertising as a % of total advertising dollars is about 10%.
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
1960 1975 1990 2005 2020
Sources:
Amy Mitchell and Jesse Holcomb, "State Of the News Media 2016," Pew Research Center, June 15, 2016, http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/state-of-the-news-media-2016/
MODULE 4 Hal Varian, "Newspaper Economics: Online and Offline," March 9, 2010, https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_events/how-will-journalism-survive-internet-age/varian.pdf
PER CAPITA CIRCULATION OF PRINT
NEWSPAPERS
Interactive Per Capita Circulation Over Time
0.35
exercise
Circulation as a % of Population
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
0
X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6
Year
Hal Varian, "Newspaper Economics: Online and Offline," March 9, 2010, https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_events/how-will-journalism-survive-internet-age/varian.pdf
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PER CAPITA CIRCULATION OF PRINT
NEWSPAPERS
Per Capita Circulation
0.35
Circulation as a % of US Population
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
Circulation as a # of
Population
% of population newspapers
100,000 10% 10,000
120,000 9% 10,800
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WHY DID FALLING PER CAPITA NUMBERS
NOT RAISE AN ALARM?
# of Price of a Topline
newspapers copy revenues
10,000 $1.00 10,000
9,000 $1.20 10,800
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MARKETING MYOPIA
Advertising (Scale)
News (Personalized)
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Internet became the trigger that unbundled these
two business models
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Ad revenues depend on reader engagement. So how
should newspapers improve engagement?
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