Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please. Not at all.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. It ain’t happening.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry. Retailers historically need trained stored managers, a few great merchandisers, and, in most cases, store staff with a customer service orientation. We advocate that companies choose their own set of metrics tailored to their industries and strategies.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

i wrote about this here a few weeks ago ( [link] ) as relates to the American Booksellers Assoc suing Target, Walmart and Amazon for price cutting and threatening the local bookseller industry. Then theres all those other fun things like developing a culture that represents the owner’s values and beliefs, etc.

Open-book 311

Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Business development. Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. Training and development of people. Body of Knowledge.

Budgeting 80

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 80

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Joel Barker says you can innovate faster, cheaper and with less risk by developing innovations at the verge. People and businesses are looking for opportunities.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Genuine case studies of small businesses a retail shop, small manufacturing business, and medical office – are used throughout, so you can compare the way your business works to the case studies, and to industry norms. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

Finance 50

Finance Uncertainty Case Study Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Whether you are developing a mathematical optimization or just trying to drive more effective and efficient use of resources across the organization, the resource optimization model should be based on the objective, decision variables and constraints.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Business development. Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

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 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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). He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The auto industry is a case in point. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate. For example, Cree Inc.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These are the images many outsiders have of the medical marijuana industry. I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. And I still do now. The list goes on.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

eBay : The online retailer built its first data center in 2010 (it had previously leased data center space, which is what many in the industry do) in South Jordan, Utah. But there was a problem: Utah law didn't allow non-utility companies to buy and transmit power directly from renewable energy developers. The solutions.

Energy 14

Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. As in China several years ago, there's a reluctance to pay for goods using the Web; most of today's online transactions are in the travel industry (representing 87 percent of a $6.3 billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Steroid scandals periodically rock the sports world.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. GM announced that 62 of its plants now send zero waste to landfill , and UK retailer Marks & Spencer reached a 92% diversion rate on the way to its zero goals. Looking Forward to 2011. Enough said.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. Bain & Company recently surveyed about 750 employees across industries in Brazil, China, India, Germany, the UK, and the U.S. They also want to be involved in developing sustainability strategy.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. We found several major factors. And while this study focused on U.S.

Skills 12

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture. There is no cable industry. The multi-front digital onslaught will inevitably generate more consolidation among incumbents, and ultimately the emergence of a new industry structure.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s no longer good enough to wait for change to come to your industry; you need to be out there where it’s happening. So suppose you want to follow the over 200 multinationals across a multitude of industries that have set up a strategic beachhead in Silicon Valley. Product Research and Development.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Over the last decade, we have been conducting field research on how dozens of companies in a range of industries (including entertainment, software, financial services, manufacturing, retail, consulting, and business process outsourcing) orient new employees. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer).

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Industry disruption and accelerating change are no longer remarkable phenomena requiring a special response — they are part of the landscape. He looks at his leadership team as a kind of sales force, each member of which should be developing a pipeline of opportunities to add more value all the time. Have you been disrupted recently?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon, the upscale retailer of yoga clothing, is doing great. Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This has helped cement the manufacturer’s brand as the most safety-minded player in the industry. Bringing the skills development that customers should be investing in anyway right to their parking lots is the kind of value-adding service that helps lock in channel partners. .

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.” ” Sure, I would respond.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8