Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. .” This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

Mass Marketing 12

Mass Marketing Technology Contract Manufacturing Insurance 12

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. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. But it’s more than simple disregard for the quarterly pressures of the public markets that powers these industry behemoths. They also share another quality uncommon among peers. And they lasted.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. at the forefront.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 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. The rise of convenience store chains is another big trend in the UK.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. trillion in 2014 alone. Multinationals once expanded by building a replica of their entire firm in each country where they operated.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms. This is happening in a country where online vendors largely operate on a cash-on-delivery (COD) basis.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

” Fast culture is the realm of trendspotters/coolhunters, who monitor social data to find hourly trends and the new lingo of the month. It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. To reverse this trend, we need to simplify the ways we approach innovation in 2014 – by better defining what it is (and isn’t), what it takes to carry it out, and what is needed to enable truly new thinking to thrive.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Supermarkets are a case in point.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The last few weeks have brought news of turmoil in China, including currency devaluations, an economic slowdown, and a stock market plunge. The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based Most economists, including those at the the IMF , think it is premature to talk about an economic crisis. While 33.6% PMI was 51.1

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically. Companies are not squarely to blame for the anger and frustration that have so warped this presidential primary season.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

More granularly, the data are tentative but trending: for example, the average proportion of foreign employees within a start-up is 29% for the top 20 innovation ecosystems surveyed. from 2012 to 2014. Indeed, assessing an innovator’s GQ—the Globality Quotient—has become a standard market test.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. Nearly half a million people have died, a number driven mainly by prescription opioid overdoses In 2014, more people died in the U.S. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The Future of Operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In fact, today’s oil prices that we think of as low are actually near the real average price of a barrel of oil for the last 150 years: $35 (2014 US dollar reference year). And it would take them as long as 5 to 10 years to explore, develop, and then bring production to market after investing billions of dollars into new fields.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They can use their market power (they direct the bulk of health care dollars) and understanding of different consumer segments to create innovative products, services, and partnerships that address consumers’ needs. Most, however, are neglecting a key opportunity: helping providers change their operating model.

Health Care 9

Health Care Insurance Industry Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

To a striking extent, readers (customers, consumers, citizens — i.e., you and I) have taken charge of our interactions with publishers and other vendors in the marketplace, and this trend will only continue — with paradigm-shifting results. The New Tools of Marketing. See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports).

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. Businesses can use these trends to reconnect with their customers and their communities.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage. Promote and graphically portray your company’s designated cause-related marketing activities. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

Strategy 91

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 91

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Trends come and go… the latest is not necessarily the best. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Discern the differences between trends and fads. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Planning 58

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly.

Agility 15

Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Take marketing giant WPP.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In a health care market where APIs are commonplace, patients could have easy, efficient access to their own data, which would help them understand their own health and make more informed choices. As a result of this program, 97% of reported hospitals had certified EHR technology in 2014, up from 72% in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Technology System 8