AI Strategy
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy — A Complete Practitioner Guide
An extremely detailed synthesis of Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers—Scale Economies, Network Economies, Counter-Positioning, Switching Costs, Branding, Cornered Resource, and Process Power—plus Strategy Statics vs Dynamics, Benefit × Barrier, the Path to Power, and the Power Progression for consulting and AI product work.
Executive takeaway
An extremely detailed synthesis of Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers—Scale Economies, Network Economies, Counter-Positioning, Switching Costs, Branding, Cornered Resource, and Process Power—plus Strategy Statics vs Dynamics, Benefit × Barrier, the Path to Power, and the Power Progression for consulting and AI product work.
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