article thumbnail

Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

(It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 John Sullivan FORA.tv

article thumbnail

China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

article thumbnail

Deliver Big Impact on a Small Budget

Harvard Business Review

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. Like Ning, it was available globally, which was perfect for our growing network of volunteers.

article thumbnail

How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.

article thumbnail

Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

article thumbnail

Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Through the outsourcing arrangements, Bharti dramatically lowered its costs while ensuring high quality for customers, since vendors had world-class competencies in their domains.