Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K., and Latin America.

Brand 60

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's emerged as this season's hot holiday pricing strategy for online retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy: dynamic pricing. From a pricing perspective, there are a variety of reasons why retailers are employing dynamic pricing. In September 2007, just 68 days after introducing the iPhone, Apple dropped its price from $599 to $399.

Retail 8

Retail Price Strategy Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007. Will the steady increase in the economy translate into a positive hiring forecast? The results are mixed.

Uncertainty 57

Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. We want to come out strong.”

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining. Copyright (c) 2011.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. I speak from experience. Consider leaving a comment!

Motivation 51

Motivation Management How To Retail 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

All the world's apparel manufacturers and retailers have joined the race to clothe China. According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. Three years later, the number had jumped to 28%.

Apparel 13

Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. How do you get back on top?

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What is even more unbelievable is that Journelle opened its doors in 2007 — when bankruptcy for small businesses skyrocketed. From the first quarter of 2007 to 2008 bankruptcy filings for small businesses grew 33%. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

TSR 15

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. Like clockwork, it would wait until just before unveiling a new product design to file a corresponding design patent application. All’s well that ends well.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What is even more unbelievable is that Journelle opened its doors in 2007 — when bankruptcy for small businesses skyrocketed. From the first quarter of 2007 to 2008 bankruptcy filings for small businesses grew 33%. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

TSR 8

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. About the Author.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 77

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Innovation 50

Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. Operational Statistics.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It developed the NOOK and has devoted significant space in its retail stores to display and promote it, and it has a broad online library.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Prior to this, only 2007-2008 saw this many annual deals, and before that the single-year peak of 2000 saw “just” over 40,000 deals. Hospitals , too, are merging horizontally when they can, as did pharmacy retailers. The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. postal service.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. But it was founded in 1981 and hit its revenue peak about a decade ago before delisting from NASDAQ in 2007 and shrinking substantially. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010. .”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8