The more intelligent the products/offers are, the more intelligent the resources need to be. And the more expensive are the advance expendi for the development and the production means.
Thinking beyond this classic cost-focus: Expenses for intelligent solutions are investments into intangible assets and power up the potential to solve people's real problems in new ways.
If you recognize this growing potential and take as a starting point, you can expand your strategy and generate additional income without any investment.
All it needs is a change in focus. (And may be a map to see the whole framework.)
Link for downloading framework as PDF
"We also need to develop an economic theory appropriate to a world economy in which knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant... source of comparative advantage."
Peter E. Drucker, The Atlantic 11/1994 (source here)
Classic framework shows less than half of assets and results of any company.
Has to be something beyond money flow?
The more intelligent the products will be and have to be built, the more Intangible Assets are needed.
Take care about and use it for additional earnings.
It only needs paper and a knife to show your peers what they miss, if they use the classic science (economics).
Help your peers to see reality from different points of view and gain new perspectives for strategic business options.
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