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“Ms. Plantes earned her Ph.D. from MIT. Projecting, as I am wont to do, I anticipated spending the session translating MIT speak to my business. She amazed me in her ability to take a sophisticated subject matter and communicate in an easily understood and applicable way.”

Why you need a better business model strategy today.
Today's economic climate is best summarized in one overarching trend: accelerating commoditization. In a blink, even one-of-a-kind offerings become one of many—with customers gladly making choices based primarily on price and competitors quickly copying your improvements. If your business isn't wrestling with commoditization already, it will be... and sooner than you think.

The only way out of this quagmire is business model innovation—creating a unique value promise and offering that competitors can't affordably replicate. You'll garner the profit and growth opportunities that a differentiated business model, built on competitive advantage, offers.

If you want a business model catalyst to plus your team, Kay Plantes will help your team:

Challenge hidden rules and assumptions of your industry and business
Make faster and smarter strategy, execution and pricing decisions
Lead business model innovation
Create a one-page strategic plan everyone will use
Strengthen its strategic leadership capabilities

An author and columnist, Kay's publications build on her passion for business model innovation and the creation of thriving businesses. Her new book provides leadership teams with a pragmatic, step-by-step guide to build sustainable advantage.

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For more than 25 years, Kay's unusual blend of visionary and execution-savvy thinking and business model innovation expertise have helped leaders like you see their organization and markets through a new lens and make better strategy and execution decisions. Her consulting and energetic facilitation yield clarity and unified decisions around the best path forward for your organization. With Kay as a collaborator, you'll build commitment and execution success across the organization.

As a speaker and workshop leader, Kay quickly identifies the key issues facing your organization in advance, enabling her to offer your colleagues keen insights into their business challenges and opportunities. Audiences also appreciate the applicability of presentations and workshop material customized to their needs. Kay will motivate and prepare your leaders, and sometimes even your customers or distribution partners, to see more possibilities and create differentiated businesses.

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“I read [Beyond Price] with a growing sense of unease over how we delude ourselves into thinking that are acting strategically, when really we are operating at varying levels of the tactical. You can't read this book without pausing to think hard about what business you are really in, and, more important, how you create the culture and processes with your team where that question is systematically, relentlessly examined. This book is one of those rare cold slaps to the face, and for business unit leaders, not to be missed (except, hopefully, by my competitors!)."