Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

At 24 he sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265 million, so it’s little wonder that a packed house of business leaders turned up to hear what he had to say. From the outside, Zappos.com is a successful online retailer, but from the inside Zappos.com has created a mission that is about creating happiness.

CEO 46

CEO Retail Mission Statement Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. In the first kind, a company acquires another to strengthen its current business model. We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Its stock price peaked weeks after the company went public in 2011 and is down about 80% since. That is, how much of an "annuity" does your business model have? For example, if you had 1,000 paying customers in 2011, how many of them were still with you as paying customers in 2012? Or take giant online retailer Amazon.

Quality 10

Quality Metrics Diversity Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Although dampened somewhat by the economic climate and job uncertainty , the five+ weeks from late November through the end of the calendar year represent more than $500 billion in sales — or approximately 40% of the entire year's retail revenue in the U.S. — and even more for some kinds of businesses. What's your view?

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Supply Chain Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. The auto industry is a case in point.

Strategy 11

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

State after state enacted laws to tax chain retailers , to prohibit price discounting, and to protect small merchants and the wholesalers who served them against the onslaught of the chains. A group called the Anti-Monopoly League, which claimed to represent 80,000 independent merchants, announced its intention to drive chain retailers out.

Retail 10

Retail P&L Price Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

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. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. It is based on the idea that a business model can readily be transported from one country to another. They look to the proven business models from the U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Riding on the inputs of such third-party developers and their popular applications, Walgreens enhanced overall customer engagement with its retail stores. Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Growth strategy Product development Business models Internet'

Levitt 8

Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Same business model architecture, two entirely different responses: obvious or unachievable. It's something that allows organizations to do things entirely differently — if we let it become the backbone of our business models.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

With no official addresses, delivery of online purchases or local retail distribution near these people was almost impossible until the two companies entered into partnerships with local community groups to map these areas. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Innovative business models may be required. Take consumer credit.

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They spent a lot of time "testing the waters," "experimenting," and "building prototypes," while younger, nimbler companies took to the web with ease, shattering established business models along the way. Think of Yahoo!,

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. Similarly, Flipkart, the largest online retailer in India, has so far raised an impressive amount of around $3 billion in nine rounds of equity financing.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

We also discovered ways to build business models that reduced friction between commercial and social goals, thereby smoothing the path to growth. We tend to see lots of people who fall in love with the social impact and hide the weaknesses in the business model and the weaknesses in execution," he said.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

And by 2011, a mere 21% of Americans had received any training within the past five years. From Sentiment to Success Why Uber Just Hired Obama's Campaign Guru Wired Uber''s great and all, except for one tiny problem: A lot of countries around the world think its business model is illegal. Retail Technology'

Survey 8

Survey Training Travel Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

I had been a member of the board since 2011 and loved the brand and everything it stood for. On my first day, I confessed to the entire home office and field management team that I was the least qualified person to run the business. I did not want the company to liquidate. My six-month stint is now turning into a two-year anniversary.

Fashion 8

Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But if you view Groupon as a tactic to garner new customers—the way retailers use outlet stores and restaurants offer "early bird" specials—and are comfortable with the revenue you're giving up by offering a deeply discounted price, then Groupon can make sense.

Discount 15

Discount Price Tactics Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Mergers and acquisitions among traditional infrastructure providers is not a sign of their growing power , in other words, but of increased pressure on their traditional business models, another sure sign of Big Bang disruption in process.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 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

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is perhaps the purest expression of the blending of the digital and physical worlds of retail.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

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 primary business model is to create content and sell ads.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Now, platforms like AngelList, WeFunder, and Republic enable ordinary retail investors to participate in this stage of a company’s growth.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 11