Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For some time now, I've been observing that one of the central principles of strategy — that industries are a fundamental building block for strategic analysis — is being challenged. The Wall Street Journal published a story which shows just how blurred traditional industry lines have become.

Analysis 8

Analysis Industry Wireless Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. But with oil producers in North America expanding output, prices are likely to remain volatile.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

That is what we were driven for at first but somewhere along the lines it did not mean as much to those of us who had been working in our industry for 18 years. When you are determining what industry or market to serve and many could use your service which one will you focus on. Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

That is what we were driven for at first but somewhere along the lines it did not mean as much to those of us who had been working in our industry for 18 years. When you are determining what industry or market to serve and many could use your service which one will you focus on. Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Meanwhile behemoths such as McKinsey and BCG, to maintain their above-industry-average growth rates and keep their global office networks humming, have broadened what they do and moved down the food chain. Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 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.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Those companies that focus on building a system of three to six best-in-class, interlocking capabilities that support their way to play achieve a right to win in their industries.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

By 2011, it had become apparent that Brazil’s recent prosperity depended too much on China’s appetite for commodities and on the Brazilian government’s ability to fuel consumer spending through direct transfers and credit expansion. Strategy 1: Adapt Your Value Proposition.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

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. That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. Since 2008, through government subsidies, the manufacturing capacity of China''s solar-panel industry grew tenfold, leading to a vast global oversupply.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience. Everyone shops at Aldi.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The key issue is whether the merger reduces competition in the upstream or downstream market, or whether owning a supplier or a buyer gives the firm too much market power in its own industry. More commonly, we think of disruptive competition as the rise of a technology or business model that upends the existing order in an industry.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% ” Anyone in the world who wants to operate out of Estonia can become a “resident” of the country — without living there. As with disruption in the private sector, Estonia’s e-residency program offers both a lower price and fewer features while simultaneously creating a new route to market.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense. He believed that that they show the path to bringing down cost by leveraging volumes and delivering a billion predictable dining experiences at affordable prices.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

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. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. 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. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting.

Health Care 8

Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. This phenomenon has been documented in the consumer-packaged-goods , food , semiconductor-manufacturing , and other industries. automobile industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. His customers always overpowered him and controlled the pricing, and his meager budget relegated him to riding in the backs of trucks and crowded trains. In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. Has this transformation had impact on customers and its industry in the past decade?

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many such bulletins focus on radically changing the nature of competition in an industry, as Apple did for music and Uber did for taxis. But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. The business media have had no shortage of these. Why is that? Business model innovation is hard.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. After extensive consultation with pilots and other experts, the FAA has proposed a rule change that might allow operational use of tablets.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 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. increase in annual operating profits.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” California is also delivering some big results.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. The central battle pits Apple against everyone and everything involved with Android, Google’s open source operating system. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

First, I added the $58 acquisition price to the $58.36 cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120. Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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. This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. But rejecting it will be hard to justify under current law.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8