---
id: "action-separate-growth-strategies"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["¶16"]
tags: ["growth-strategy", "execution"]
related: ["claim-independent-growth-strategies", "concept-business-model-portfolio"]
action: "Develop and apply independent growth strategies for each distinct business model in your portfolio."
outcome: "Optimized unit economics and prevented dilution of individual business model effectiveness."
speakers: ["Donna Henrike Bohrer", "Karolin Frankenberger", "Joakim Wincent"]
sources: ["commercial"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-commercial"
originDay: 5
articleStem: "hbr-tier2-09-customer-workarounds"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/what-customer-workarounds-can-reveal-about-your-business-model"
sourceTitle: "What Customer Workarounds Can Reveal About Your Business Model"
---
# Apply Independent Growth Levers Per Model

**Action:** Recognize that different business models (subscriptions vs. usage-based APIs vs. enterprise) have fundamentally different underlying economics. Do not apply one unified growth strategy across the portfolio; treat each model independently.

**Expected outcome:** Optimized unit economics and prevented dilution of individual model effectiveness.

This is the executional form of [[claim-independent-growth-strategies]] and depends on [[prereq-business-model-mechanics]]. It is also the authors' operational answer to portfolio complexity (see [[counter-portfolio-complexity]]): separate motions, separate metrics.

**Related:** [[claim-independent-growth-strategies]] · [[concept-business-model-portfolio]] · [[prereq-business-model-mechanics]]