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N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Let’s just take a moment and look at a few notable examples of what happens to companies that become complacent…Why didn’t the railroads innovate? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2014
But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2017
Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Starting that year, however, it began diverting cash from its profitable toy brick business into an array of adjacencies: theme parks, television programs, watches, retail stores, plastic toys without the brick system, video games, and even a Steven Spielberg–cobranded “movie studio in a box.” By 1993 the company had $1.3
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. ” Its appetizer seems to have been smaller companies. IT Does Matter.
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