Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If we're to actually get better at innovation, we need to understand the operating conditions that lead to it and move past the bigotry and biases. To do so, let's look at two distinguished firms side by side to see how innovation is entirely independent of size and more a function of different operating rules.

Operations 16

Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. ” Every modern business operates in a highly networked economic environment.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

Note: I fully recognize CPG companies do not fit this business model, but there are trillions of dollars represented in many other categories that do). Take note that 72% of B2B marketers have no or very little processes for lead funnel optimization, according to the 2012 Marketing Sherpa B2B Benchmark Study. About the Author.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

However, the full name didn’t have the same meaning as it once did, so we changed one word that encapsulates aspects of our culture, our operating philosophy, and our service to our customers: “Ingenuity.” Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

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. market for personal computers.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 million subscribers, not far off our 2012 prediction that there were at least 40 million U.S. Converting consumer certainty into consumer cash flow is a key part of making money from digital business models, many of which use subscription models. Business models Internet'

Business Model 8

Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? But when it comes to core classes which don''t require labs or much in-person faculty interaction, does the current model justify the value-price equation? What''s next?

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. million subscribers.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. It sold the site to Shutterfly as part of its bankruptcy plan for less than $25 million in April 2012.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes. Are there opportunities for new entrants and competitors to disrupt the existing business model?

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Over the past few years, business school administrators — like other university officials — have been losing sleep over Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs), worrying that these low-cost digital alternatives will cannibalize their business model. This includes a demographic survey with over 65,000 responses.

Education 11

Education Course Class Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Instead, what they should have done is innovate a new business model.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

The result of all this was that, while the decline of American newspapers (especially the big regional papers) was probably inevitable in the age of the Internet , the reluctance and at times inability of newspaper companies to transition from high-margin business models to low-margin ones has made things much worse. Scripps 6.9%

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Independent retailers are savvy operators and are eager to join the fray if given the opportunity.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When I met Lane, in 2012, he had just returned from a Medtronic-sponsored skills-based volunteering trip to Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Center in Chennai, India. Big businesses bypass crucial unmet needs, such as monitoring a child’s blood glucose while they’re at school or asleep, because they operate based on current assumptions.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. photography.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. B Corp certification encouraged more “whole-systems thinking” around our social and environmental practices, which led Cabot to develop even more robust customer and consumer programs, cut operating costs, and strengthen our brand reputation as a sustainability-minded company.

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Many companies are taking advantage of this opportunity to steer emerging African economies toward a mobile-driven, cashless (or cash lite) future by introducing a slew of new products, services, and business models. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

P&L 12

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. One of Buffer’s practices is to default to transparency — it is relentlessly forthcoming about its operations, its learning, and its performance. billion dollars in sales (a 50% increase over 2012) in the Etsy marketplace alone.

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. Look at Yahoo or even eBay.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. He instituted a policy of continuous productivity improvement, but also allowed — even encouraged — his operating units to use the savings to fuel future growth. 3: Make your company growth-friendly.

Retail 10

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Key to our advice is the implicit acknowledgement that all disruptive businesses find their strength in some technological or business model innovation that is fundamentally better positioned than their upmarket competitors in serving some segment of the population. It should be competing differently.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Africa’s recent economic growth rates and rising youth population have meant more and more entrepreneurs are looking there for potential business opportunities. The typical strategy is to introduce new companies by recreating foreign business models on the continent. But for e-commerce start-ups, it’s not that easy.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Open-book Marketing System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Fast forward to 2012 and “answering e-mails” would surely bite into the time-starved CEO’s work week. CEOs who invest their time advancing their company’s business model or seeking a new one are adding value to their organizations. These initiatives began with the quest to advance the business model through innovation.

CEO 207

CEO Chief Executive Officer Business Model Competitive Advantage 207

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. These women are testers, trying new ideas and experimenting with new business models.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S. The real enemy of Apple is Google, whose Android operating system runs on Samsung’s phones. The answer is Google’s business model. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills. advertising budget more (percentage-wise) than any other high tech company.

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. But activism isn't just the prerogative of NGOs, as business leaders begin to pursue agendas that go far beyond commercial lobbying. Breakthrough Activism.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace. The Justice Department’s case ignored this reality, largely because it didn’t fit its theoretical model of price pressure and possible foreclosure of supposedly unsubstitutable Time Warner programming.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8