Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. If you will not buy for yourself a specific product, don’t try to sell it. Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

Brand 67

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. The tendency for too many multinationals is to design products for the bottom of the pyramid by stripping features from existing products.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

CEOs of these firms can emulate four best practices initiated by Carlos Ghosn at Renault-Nissan: 1) Create " good enough " products that deliver high value for money: Over-engineering products is no longer sustainable — both for economical and environmental reasons. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead. It would seem that managerial enthusiasm for all things “lean” has its limits.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits. Here’s an update of some key numbers in that article: In 2004-2013, 454 companies in the S&P 500 Index that were publicly listed over the decade expended $3.4 Massive buybacks rewards parties who have contributed the least to Apple’s products and profits.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% percent annually, while similar U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything. The constant refrain is that Apple has not introduced a disruptive product since Steve Jobs passed away. Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%.

Marketing 10

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

For example, many companies conduct frequent surveys asking customers how likely they are to recommend a product or company to friends or colleagues. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. The result?

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This acquisition was motivated by China’s increased demand for pork and Smithfield’s reputation for high-quality, safe products (especially important given recent food scares related to sick hogs and bird flu). Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Technology.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. Value, not price: The common wisdom is that India’s buyers seek the lowest possible price and are prepared to compromise on quality. David Mulford, U.S.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. With only one of their six children living at home, now was the time.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging. The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price. There are already strategy lessons to be drawn from the contest.

Strategy 11

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. What about the automation of the production line? Just 6% are using AI in pricing. bribes and kickbacks).

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. They use their products on a daily basis.

Leadership 9

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Then, between 2004 and 2014, Nordstrom made an extraordinary series of investments, each aimed squarely at that same purpose of providing a fabulous customer experience. The company is growing sales in both full-price and off-price businesses through both online and traditional channels. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. His customers always overpowered him and controlled the pricing, and his meager budget relegated him to riding in the backs of trucks and crowded trains. Many have grown up under conditions of hardship. They think large-scale.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. We were ready to do things differently when we purchased 3721.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 That seems like a good bet; since the IPO, Facebook's share price has fallen meaningfully. China today represents approximately 50% of global steel production and consumption. Take the steel industry.

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In doing so, they often fail to ask the right questions beyond which acronym rolls of the tongue most easily. Clever turns of phrase can fool many except those who actually spent time in emerging markets and ask tough questions.

Banking 14

Banking Politics Globalization GDP 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. Why do we do the work we do?

Company 13

Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

One of the first products aimed at putting an iPhone into a baby's hands ( Fisher-Price's oversize case , providing coverage against drools and tantrums, while doubling as a rattle), rapidly sold out on Amazon; the three apps designed for the case have been downloaded more than 700,000 times. 50% of 11 year olds have own cell phone.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. His customers always overpowered him and controlled the pricing, and his meager budget relegated him to riding in the backs of trucks and crowded trains. Many have grown up under conditions of hardship. They think large-scale.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry. A year later, the second version got a full keyboard. billion in revenues.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

At the company level, stock price is the measure." Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." And that focus filters down to companies. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.'

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

And on the other hand you've got individuals who voluntarily engage in the social production of common value: people who contribute the video, text, photos, tags and links that together create collective value that is far greater than the sum of its parts, and far more compelling than the software or servers on which it resides.

Media 15

Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

Research reported in the Fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business shows that the long-term follow-up and involvement of coworkers tends to be highly correlated with positive change in the perceived effectiveness of leaders. For example, a company may have the wrong strategy or be selling the wrong product. Distractions. Maintenance.

Goal 137

Goal Short-term Long-term Crisis 137

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. The impact of demand on productivity growth is often underappreciated. percentage points.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). Strength of productivity program. In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. times the industry median.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A new Booz study — actually, a repeat of one it did in 2004 — once again came up with the same result. THE PRICE FOR A CIVILIZED SOCIETY. Surpass Saudi Arabia in Oil Production? What’s caused U.S. firms to lose the most shareholder value in the last 10 years? The Tax Man (Finally) Cometh (BBC). the Telegraph).

Company 15

Company Retail Outsourcing Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Competing by doing what everyone else is doing means, he says, competing on price (that is, learning to be more efficient than your rivals).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For wages to grow on a sustained basis, workers’ productivity must rise, meaning they must steadily produce more per hour, often with the help of new technology or capital. Further, workers must receive a consistent share of those productivity gains, rather than seeing their share decline. At the same time, U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Education Trends Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities. But what is the economic logic for this use of buybacks?

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While I've helped many clients grow their products, brands, and overall businesses, there is nothing as exhilarating as helping a company create an entirely new category. Category creation requires innovation teams to re-think their role beyond just creating new products and services. of revenue growth. coffee sector. Yet total U.S.

B2C 12

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 12