Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

It is the ability for a brand to deliver contextual and highly targeted marketing at the local retail level. WiFiSLAM is billed, according to AngelList, as a technology that, "allow(s) your smartphone to pinpoint its location (and the location of your friends) in real-time to 2.5m We may be inching ever-closer to this reality.

Retail 9

Retail Price Merchandising Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. Some are skeptical about whether technology can continue to deliver the rapid productivity gains it did in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. Witness the rapid growth in US productivity levels in the 1990s and 2000s in sectors such as retailing. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. Redesign processes with sales tasks, not the technology, in mind. A stunning 70% of U.S.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation CRM CIO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Yet ROI leaders in our study also included telecoms, retailers, banks and high-tech companies.

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, Amazon.com launched Amazon Source, a program that will pay retail outlets for selling Kindle e-reading devices and accessories. Retailers can buy the products at a 6% discount and earn a 10% commission on ebook sales recorded for a given device for the next two years. of publisher revenues in 2012.

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eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. Through better connectivity, information technology is improving the practice of medicine as never before. We need a similar “para-medical” function in medicine. Insight Center.

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Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Showrooming , once a worry primarily for consumer electronics retailers, is expanding into markets we might have thought exempt. Chalk this up to the efficiency of digital retailers, who’ve systematically dismantled every obstacle to online shopping. A look at retailers who succeed despite showrooming reveals three design imperatives.

Retail 9

Retail Reis Price Banking 9

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 means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. Based on the theory of disruption alone, it's hard to say what the retail giant should do. It's just not a good decade to be Best Buy. It should be competing differently.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. IT management Technology'

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Analysis Agility Diversity Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. In 2012, Amazon reported that one second of latency in page loading cost the company an average of $1.6

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Marketing Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. As a recent New York Times article pointed out, that's the kind of sales per employee that consulting firms deliver, not retail stores.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. 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.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Successful companies such as Starbucks (inspired by coffeehouses in Italy) and the German online retailer Zalando (inspired by Zappos) exemplify the potential of this strategy.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. without any compliance process or technology in place.". Adopting technology that keeps pace with regulatory requirements is equally important. It tweeted. "We

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Consumers spent six times as much time on retailers'' apps in December 2012 compared with the previous year. Advertising Technology' "Mobile first."

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Consumers spent six times as much time on retailers’ apps in December 2012 compared with the previous year. Advertising Technology'

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

The consumer-goods supply chain typically moves from large Western or indigenous manufacturers to distributors to wholesalers to family-owned shops and finally to micro-retailers selling from carts or by the roadside. Here’s Where They Make China’s Cheap Android Smartphones (Technology Review). — for temporary warehouse sites.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain EBITDA NGO Taylorism 8

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 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. Her response: a complete reinvention of her business, a new name, new technology and a reconfigured role ? million in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the three years since December 2012 (the date of the Sandy Hook killings) the U.S.-based When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. For some, guns are a great business.

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In three months in 2012, Russia’s share of malicious hosts rose by around 10%, and the United States lost 10% of its bad boy computers. The Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center has been up and running since last year, when some 30 large retail companies got together and decided to share information on threats with each other.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff.

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Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. The result: an organization in which ideas and people flourish and new products, technologies, and directions are freely generated. Retail workers feel valued and trusted and submit observations at a rate of 6,000 a week. Story by Steve Wallin.

Management 12

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

McDonald's raised prices three percent in early 2012 and by the third quarter, faced the first drop in same-store sales in nine years. A manager in a retail company demanded a promotion during the recession, because he was "indispensable," he said. The executive responsible for that strategy was replaced.

Career 13

Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

British retailer ASOS also maintains a popular Instagram account. Starbucks invested in and partnered with Square in 2012 to bring mobile payment systems into its stores using Square’s Wallet app. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. Russia is going through a credit crunch that is causing significant retail sector consolidation and putting distributors under substantial pressure.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Indeed, the creation of human tasks in the wake of technological advancement has been a part of automation’s history since the invention of the machine lathe. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service. They are the new world of contract labor hidden underneath a layer of AI.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In 2012, the major U.S. Consumer electronics retailers have combated their razor thin margins by offering additional warranties and premium installation services. Retail banks found many ways to unbundle elements of their core offering that not everyone needed, like check-processing. airlines earned an estimated $12.4

Airlines 8

Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Not too long ago, I was asked to give a presentation on the state of digital media and how well brands are intersecting the worlds of marketing and technology. This has been a steadily growing trend since 2012. As screens get increasingly getting cheaper and more ubiquitous, are we going to keep counting them? They outnumber the PCs.

Advertising 8

Advertising Media Marketing Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Our 2012 survey, in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles, of more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe, found that only 48% of the boards had a formal process of determining the combination of skills and attributes required for their board and, therefore, for new directors.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. These teams include consumer insight, brand, product, retail, digital, social, and consumer care specialists who now closely work together to create integrated consumer experiences and launch plans. Our transformation centered on the consumer.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

We audited a range of sites and platforms to see how CEOs are engaging socially and compared these results to its 2010 and 2012 findings. Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%).

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8