Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Operational Statistics. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. One out of every 12 businesses fails.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. I find this especially true when coaches work with executives in operations. That workshop in coaching skills is a long way from the world of the factory floor.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. Where big bang disruption comes into play is with the advent of Netflix’s streaming video service in 2007. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point. For years, Blockbuster seemed unbeatable.

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 billion and phased out Billpoint a year later.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

By 2007 it broke through the barrier of 1 million active customers; 10 years later it had more than 10 million clients and about 800 branches. After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 However, in 2000 a new player entered the industry, called Capitec, which started establishing branches rapidly.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. In November 2007, Forbes put the CEO of Nokia on its cover and asked, “Can Anyone Catch the Cell Phone King?” Why, then, did Apple prevail?

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode. Executives never stayed long.

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