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. The next thing the company knew, it couldn’t raise prices anymore, and market share kept falling.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

And, oh yeah - the price of gas. Pay-at-the-pump technology, now commonplace, makes the transaction quick and easy. It took a couple decades, but eventually pay-at-the-pump became the industry standard nationwide. Copyright 2011. I've done this countless times, so I pretty much do it without thinking. Post by Dennis E.

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Creativity Brand Management Participative Course 81

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S's story seems to be about a new beginning: the highly anticipated launch of the latest version of a blockbuster consumer-technology product. And both teach lessons that apply across many industries. Both Pfizer and.

Disintermediation 15

Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

Brand 267

Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. When insurers or health care providers have to battle one another to attract customers, they must differentiate themselves by charging lower prices or providing better service.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

WRONG …The simple truth of the matter is that the time needed to attain performance goals varies depending among other things the age, size and competitive positioning of the company, the industry, sector and vertical, etc.

CEO 287

CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low. For example, one-click access to thousands of mutual funds, or exceptional service for the price paid. Technology can probably breathe new life into them.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

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. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. On the plateau of oil supply, prices are trapped on a narrow ledge. Yergin's assertions.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Google bought U.K.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

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Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. The auto industry is a case in point. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. Three Images/Getty Images.

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.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Thursday is the "Governors" Day, which means that key industry sectors, and especially key leaders from those sectors, are spending the day together in deep discussion on the direction of their fields. In particular, talk of food prices has been gaining momentum. He said, quite simply, "please bring down the price of food.".

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Wilde Price Reputation Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Google bought U.K.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

By joining the Head Health Initiative (a joint technology venture between the NFL and GE that focuses on detecting and preventing brain injuries), Plank is also not-so-subtly getting his foot in the league''s door — one that''s propped open by Nike (of course), which currently holds the contract to make NFL uniforms. BONUS BITS: Cheers?

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Price Company Sports Advertising 8

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

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.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Many such bulletins focus on radically changing the nature of competition in an industry, as Apple did for music and Uber did for taxis. The business media have had no shortage of these. Why is that?

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 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. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 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. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology?

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 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.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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. Like the religious wars of old, a complex web of alliances, side agreements, and mutual defense pacts have conspired to draw the entire industry into open warfare. Sony is suing LG.

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Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

In industries ranging from consumer electronics to construction and from media to mining, the firms seizing the lead are those that can best align ecosystems of offers and partners. 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

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

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy Tech industry'

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In fact, some not-for-profit multisided platforms — hardly household names — have helped drive the major technological revolutions of the last several decades, including the internet and mobile. SSOs comprise a massive, yet almost invisible, industry. Thousands of companies belong to them and many belong to several.

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IPO Succession Technology Software 8