Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The fourth major innovation, the current cutting edge of blockchain thinking, is called “proof of stake.” Proof-of-work systems are expected to go live later this year.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. How could digital printing improve your innovation, product development, and speed to market? Threat analysis.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

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. Beware of Spreadsheets. Organizational and technical debts need to be repaid.

How To 8

How To Uncertainty Project Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. billion in net economic benefit between 2009 and 2011 and is on course to cut region-wide power plant carbon pollution by half from 2005 to 2020.

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

In fact, we expect the global industrial robot population to double to about four million by 2020, changing the competitive landscape in dozens of fields — from underground mining to consumer goods and aerospace manufacturing. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Engineering System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Gartner Research predicts that the typical family home will contain as many as 500 networked devices by 2020. Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data.

Technology 8

Technology B2B B2C Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

However, the current meager market share held by online lenders masks immense potential: Morgan Stanley estimates the total addressable market for online SME lenders is $280 billion and predicts the industry will grow at a 47% annualized rate through 2020. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. By 2020, it is estimated that ad-blocking adoption will cost publishers $35 billion. Related Video. Whiteboard Session: How Does Blockchain Work?

Marketing 10

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

That something was the very business model that had made Amazon an internet powerhouse in the U.S. Founder Jeff Bezos’s initial business model was fairly simple: Source a single product type from wholesalers and publishers and sell it directly to consumers on the then fledgling internet. Insight Center.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Airlines Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

billion connected “things” in use this year, and forecasts that the IoT will encompass 21 billion things by 2020 – almost three devices for every human being on the planet. Operations in a Connected World. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 6.4 Internal diversity. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Innovation 8

Innovation CAGR Diversity Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. Using the Chariot phone app, riders could sign up for existing routes and also propose new ones under a crowdsourcing model.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world. Related Video. Smart, Connected Mining. <span>How </span> Save.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. Innovation and change. that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?).

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.). Unilever U.S.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Forrester Research reports that online spending in India will grow to nearly $75 billion by 2020, from $12.1 By 2020 India will have 900 million people of working age. If enforced, such a requirement would eliminate Cloudtail, the largest seller on Amazon India, effectively making its operations illegal. The evidence continues.

Price 8

Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8