Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2018

This means that no matter how good your product is, you need someone to buy it. While it’s possible to make the most perfect product in the world and price it such that only one customer justifies the entire cost of your firm, it’s statistically unlikely that your firm will. After all, a purchase isn’t simply a transaction.

Long-term 51

Long-term Advertising Marketing Productivity 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. ” Investors seemingly just weren’t looking for radical innovation from GE.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Peter Bregman – Wall Street Journal bestselling author 1 8 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction , personal productivity expert.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. health care system. pharmacy, radiology, pathology).

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. Innovation at GE was on a roll. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). 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.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. Yongyuan Dai/Getty Images.

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But there’s a critical problem with Tesla’s product strategy: it’s not actually disruptive , which will likely cause it to struggle to scale. But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. That’s why the most successful innovators usually do the reverse.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business.

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. Fortunately, in December of 2017 GE’s board downsized from 18 members to 12. HBR Staff/YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 It’s amazing when you think that VISA’s stated capacity as of August 2017 was 65,000 payments per second globally. Data intelligence is what I call this business capability of effectively iterating products and services according to consumer activity and response.

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Filling the gap requires either innovative new offerings or acquisitions. Let’s take the example of one large company we worked with, which posited that it needed $250 million in new revenue from innovative new products in five years. Over the stipulated five-year time horizon, this seemed reasonable.

How To 8

How To Uncertainty Project Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

No longer is it good enough to simply offer good value or a great product alone. In fact, the Conference Bard CEO Challenge 2017 survey shows that CEOs clearly understand the need to be more customer-centric: “Today, companies compete as much on customer experience as they do on product and price.”

Content 8

Content Learning-by-Doing Short-term Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” (He earned over $167,000 in December 2017 alone.). ” When customers are buying products they don’t need in order to thank you, that’s a powerful relationship. ” When customers are buying products they don’t need in order to thank you, that’s a powerful relationship.

Audience 8

Audience Video Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

This trend has important ramifications for the out-of-pocket prices (e.g., Consequently, if we want new medical innovations to be financially viable for the patients who need it most, health insurance markets need to be regulated to eliminate the perverse financial incentives that limit patients’ coverage. health care landscape.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. Fostering innovation.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Even oil giants from Europe (including BP, Eni, Shell, Statoil, Total) advocated for a price on carbon. A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Consumers use bitcoins to pay for imported cars , among other purchases.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Consumers go to retail stores to find out what is available at what prices—in other words, in large part, to get information. Rather than having stores in shopping centers, retailers will construct massive warehouses and home-deliver products directly. Those massive warehouses are much easier to automate.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7 billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. They could neither match DJI’s features nor its prices. Unlike in the U.S.,

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Picture the three major hurricanes photographed from space in the autumn of 2017 in a single, unparalleled NASA image. Think, too, of the forecast that carbon dioxide emissions, instead of declining, will probably have spiked by 2% in 2017, in part because much economic growth in China is still fueled by coal. and 7.7%, respectively.

Execution 8

Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. Between 2011 and 2017, employees’ premiums and deductibles grew faster than their median income. It has enormous administrative costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Innovation and change. Digital players wield outsize market power.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn are in India for the long-term, as a hub for middle-of-the–pyramid innovations that can serve all emerging and even developed markets. Amazon’s India CEO Amit Agarwal and Renault’s India CEO Sumit Sawhney have considerable autonomy to innovate in India.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. In this mix, an American company must develop a unique, India-specific strategy and product road map.

CEO 10

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). In 2016 The Lafferty Group ranked Capitec as “ The Best Bank in the World ,” a feat it repeated in 2017. After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

They gain invaluable data that fuels everything from hyper-targeted marketing to store locations to product assortment to pricing. In 2017, Costco obtained a license to open a flagship store on Tmall and began moving toward its goal of offering nearly 800 SKUs to Chinese consumers. Costco, the U.S.-based

Retail 8

Retail Marketing Supply Chain Licensing 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017. Core sectors.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Our research forecasts that it will offer the second-fastest economic growth after the emerging Asia-Pacific (APAC) in 2017. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency. Product adaptation. This, combined with a population of 1.5

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9