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At FlixAbout you get small video clips with basic knowledge of theories and models in the disciplines of management, innovation, communication and sales / marketing. Each video lasts between 4 and 15 minutes.

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Uppsala model for internationalization
The Uppsala Model originated from the work of Swedish researchers Johanson and Vahlne during the 1970s at Uppsala University. The Uppsala model, also known as the Uppsala internationalization model, is a theory that explains how companies gradually...
The Uppsala Model originated from the work of Swedish researchers...
Value Chain - Acquisitions and Merger
Michael Porter has extended his Value Chain model to encompass mergers and acquisitions, enhancing the traditional framework. The core principles of Porter's Value Chain are accessible on this channel, with the link available below the video.The...
Michael Porter has extended his Value Chain model to encompass...
The Triple Layer Business Model Canvas - integration of economic, environmental, and social elements
Alexander Joyce, Raymond Paquin and Yves Pigneur Triple-layer Business Model was introduced at the 1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference on 26-27 March 2015 in Nancy, France.Titel: The Triple-Layered Business Model Canvas a...
Alexander Joyce, Raymond Paquin and Yves Pigneur Triple-layer...
Toulmin model of argumentation
Stephen Toulmin was a British philosopher and professor, born in 1922 and died in 2009.He is known for his model of argumentation, which he originally described in The Uses of Argument from 1958.Toulmin's model is about how the good argument is...
Stephen Toulmin was a British philosopher and professor, born in 1922...
VRIO Analysis
 The VRIO Analysis is used to assess the strength of the company's core competencies. The VRIO analysiswasdeveloped by Jay B. Barney, an American professor of strategic management at the University of Utah. The model waspublished in the...
 The VRIO Analysis is used to assess the strength of the...
STEEPLE Analysis
The STEEPLE analysis is a real-world model where you analyse several factors that affect your company without you being able to influence them. It is available in several variants, including PEST and PESTEL. The difference is the number of factors...
The STEEPLE analysis is a real-world model where you analyse several...
Buy Grid Framework
The Buy Grid model is from 1967 and created by the three professors Patrick J. Robinson, Charles W. Faris and Yoram Wind. The model describes the purchasing behavior and decision-making process for purchases between companies - i.e. on the...
The Buy Grid model is from 1967 and created by the three professors...
The Buyer Utility Map
The Buyer Utility Map helps you to identify which business ideas have real commercial potential. A common trap is that the management focus on a product’s technical possibilities. Instead, they have to focus on the product’s utility – that is to...
The Buyer Utility Map helps you to identify which business ideas have...
Moores Life Cycle
The Market Development Life Cycle model also called Moore's Life Cycle was developed by Geoffrey A. Moore. The model provides an insight into innovating within established enterprises and the Leadership style corresponding to the different...
The Market Development Life Cycle model also called Moore's Life...
David Kolb - Experiental Learning
The Experiental learning model also called Kolb’s learning cycle was developed by David A. Kolb. The model provides an insight into how individuals learn. The model was published in a book entitled “Experiential Learning” in 1984. David A. Kolb was...
The Experiental learning model also called Kolb’s learning cycle was...
Deal and Kennedy Corporate Cultures
The review of the model is based on book “Corporate Cultures; The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life” published in 1982. The model consists of four dominant forms of culture. Each of these cultural types has different types of heroes, rituals and...
The review of the model is based on book “Corporate Cultures; The...
Miles and Snow Organizational Strategies
The model of organizational strategies was developed by Raymond E. Miles an Emeritus Professor at University of California and Charles C. Snow a Professor in Business Administration at Penn State University.  The review of the model is based on...
The model of organizational strategies was developed by Raymond E....
The four quadrant model of organization change Boddy and Buchanan
The review of the model is based on the book “The Expertise of the Change Agent - Public Performance and Backstage Activity” published in 1992. The model can help you understand the organization’s response to the change you implement. In the model,...
The review of the model is based on the book “The Expertise of the...
The Competing Values Framework
The Competing Values Framework, in short, the CVF model was developed by Professor of Management and Organizations Robert Quinn and Professor of Management and Organizations at Kim Cameron. Both from the University of MichiganThe review of the model...
The Competing Values Framework, in short, the CVF model was developed...
Boston Matrix
Boston Consulting Group developed the Boston matrix in the early 1970s.It is a tool for clarifying how resources are best spent on the company's products to achieve the highest revenue. A company must continuously look at how its business areas are...
Boston Consulting Group developed the Boston matrix in the early...
Edgar Schein Cultural Theory
 Edgar Schein is a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Massachusetts, USA. Also, he has worked for many years as a consultant in organisational development and corporate culture. Edgar Schein was one of the leading...
 Edgar Schein is a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of...
Canvas Business Model
 The Canvas model was developed by PhD in Management Information System Dr. Alex Osterwalder and PhD in Information system Professor Dr. Yves Pigneur. Business Canvas Model is a tool for creating a pretty clear business model using just a...
 The Canvas model was developed by PhD in Management Information...
Situational Leadership 2 of Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hersey
Situational management theory was developed over several stages. In its basic form, it was developed in a collaboration between two Americans - namely behavioral researcher Paul Hersey and PhD in leadership Kenneth Blanchard.They developed the...
Situational management theory was developed over several stages. In...
TOWS Analysis
 TOWS analysis is a tool which is used to generate, compare and select strategies in a company.  
 TOWS analysis is a tool which is used to generate, compare and...
Rhetorical compass
Anne Katrine Lund PhD in rhetoric has together with Pernille Steensbech Lemée MA. in rhetoric and media science, developed the rhetorical compass.The rhetorical compass is used for analysis of communication as well as for planning communication.
Anne Katrine Lund PhD in rhetoric has together with Pernille...
Kotters 8 steps to change
John P. Kotter’s eight stage process for creating major change is one of the most widely recognized models for change management. John P. Kotter is a retired Harvard Business School Professor of Leadership. Kotter is also a Co-founder of Kotter...
John P. Kotter’s eight stage process for creating major change is one...
Segmentation
In order to find the target group companies go through the process of segmentation. Here we look at methods for segmenting consumer markets.
In order to find the target group companies go through the process of...
SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis is credited to Albert Humphrey, who tested the approach in the 1960s and 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute.The SWOT analysis is a tool for a company to look at its current situation. Developed for business and based on data...
The SWOT analysis is credited to Albert Humphrey, who tested the...
The dynamic capabilities of Firms David Teece and Gary Pisano
David J. Teece is Professor in Global Business at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is also the director of the school’s Institute for Business Innovation. Gary Pisano is Professor of Business Administration at the...
David J. Teece is Professor in Global Business at the University of...
Norman Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis
 Norman Fairclough (born 1941) is an emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University in England. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as applied to sociolinguistics. CDA is concerned with how power is...
 Norman Fairclough (born 1941) is an emeritus Professor of...
The 4 P's innovation of Space
The 4Ps of innovation space model was developed by John Bessant and Joe Tidd. They are two professors from Exeter University in the United Kingdom. They published the model in the book Managing Innovation – Integrating Technological, Market and...
The 4Ps of innovation space model was developed by John Bessant and...
The Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum
The Continuum of Leadership Behavior was introduced by Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt in 1958 in the article ”How to Choose a Leadership Pattern” in Harvard Business Review.The Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum is a simple model of...
The Continuum of Leadership Behavior was introduced by Robert...
Nine-Stage Model of Conflict Escalation
 Friedrich Glasl is an Austrian conflict researcher. Experts worldwide use his nine-stage model of conflich escalation to determine the stage of conflict. Glasl lives in Salzburg and works for Trigon Development Consulting, which he...
 Friedrich Glasl is an Austrian conflict researcher. Experts...
Ansoff matrix of growth
 The Russian-American scientist and mathematician Igor Ansoff is known as the founder of strategic management. He was called "Father of Strategic Management" and is famous for his theory of growth.  The Ansoff Matrix is...
 The Russian-American scientist and mathematician Igor Ansoff is...
Hackmann & Oldham Job Characteristics Theory
 J. Richard Hackman and Greg R. Oldham developed "the job characteristics theory" in 1975. They expanded the theory in 1980.The theory has its roots in Frederick Herzberg two-factor theory of motivation. Which job conditions create motivation...
 J. Richard Hackman and Greg R. Oldham developed "the job...
Herzberg and Maslow
Herzberg's "two-factor theory" is a motivation theory, which is based in workplace conditions that affect employee satisfaction and motivation. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is based on the man's total need. Here is a review of the relationship and...
Herzberg's "two-factor theory" is a motivation theory, which is based...
Herzberg motivation theory
Herzberg's "two-factor theory" is a motivation theory. It looks at workplace conditions that affect employee satisfaction and motivation. The theory is often used in connection with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Lenght: 13 minutes.
Herzberg's "two-factor theory" is a motivation theory. It looks at...
Maslow
Maslow's hierarchy of needs was developed by Abraham Maslow, who was a son of first generation Jewish  immigrants from Russia. His parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but he wanted to be a psychologist. The theory was proposed by Abraham...
Maslow's hierarchy of needs was developed by Abraham Maslow, who was...
Porter's Generic Strategy
Porter identified four possible competitive strategies in the book "Competitive Advantage" published in 1985 in order to achieve a better result than the competition in the industry. These four strategies should be seen as a continuation of Porter's...
Porter identified four possible competitive strategies in the book...
Stakeholder Analysis
The stakeholder analysis provides the project manager and his team a tool to manage the different stakeholders and thereby a better possibility to complete the project successfully. The model provides an overview of how much the individual...
The stakeholder analysis provides the project manager and his team a...
Blake & Mouton Managerial Grid
Robert Blake og Jane Mouton were two American management theoreticians, who published the ”Managerial Grid” in 1964. The Grid came into existence when Blake and Mouton were hired as consultants by Exxon. They wanted to give a more nuanced picture of...
Robert Blake og Jane Mouton were two American management...
Minerva Segmentation
Henrik Dahl is a Danish sociologist and lifestyle researcher. He worked in the 1990's as research director of the research group AIM at ACNielsen . The Minerva model is developed by Henrik Dahl in 1997. According to Henrik Dahl the model is based on...
Henrik Dahl is a Danish sociologist and lifestyle researcher. He...
Porters Five Forces
Porter's five forces was introduced by Michael S. Porter in his first article in Harvard Business Review marts-april 1979. The title of the article was “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy”.The model identifies five competitive forces which affect...
Porter's five forces was introduced by Michael S. Porter in his first...
Leavitt's Model
Harold J Leavitt developed Leavitt's diamond model in 1965. Today it is one of the most widely used models to get an overview of, how an organizational change will be most effective. According to Leavitt's Diamond Model the best way is to split the...
Harold J Leavitt developed Leavitt's diamond model in 1965. Today it...
Porters Diamond Model
Michael Porters “The Diamond Model” was published in 1990 in his book ”The Competitive Advantage of Nations”. It’s a model that can help us understand why a nation becomes the home base for successful international competitors in a particular...
Michael Porters “The Diamond Model” was published in 1990 in his book...
kraljic matrix
The Kraljic Model can be used to analyze the purchasing portfolio of a company and thus support decisions and actions regarding the purchase of raw materials and products . The model's clear strength is that it relatively simple leads us to a useful...
The Kraljic Model can be used to analyze the purchasing portfolio of...
Johari Window
The Johari Window, named after the first names of its inventors, Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, was published in 1955. The window is designed to give you a better understanding of yourself and other people in the communication between you.The model...
The Johari Window, named after the first names of its inventors,...
Porters Value Chain
The value chain was introduced by Michael S. Porter in 1985 in the book “Competitive Advantage". "Value chain" is used to analyze the flow of value-adding activities from the raw material supplier to the end customer. The model looks at what value...
The value chain was introduced by Michael S. Porter in 1985 in the...