Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

International Harvester changed its name to Navistar International in 1986 when it sold its farm equipment business and entered the truck, diesel engine, and bus markets. Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. Gender inequality, as we can see, is a reality and not only in the developing countries. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Of course this depends on a company’s business model.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. If, like online retailers, healthcare companies manage to develop digital platforms that can influence people’s choices, they might achieve the holy grail of healthcare: behavior change. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

This essay uses grammar as an analogy for looking new ways at how business is conducted. Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Times of crisis and economic downturn get people thinking differently about the conduct of business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2016, DJI had 1,500 people in R&D , or 40% of a workforce of 4,000 – a luxury only available to a company that can tap into low-cost engineering talent. A prototype that takes two weeks to develop in Silicon Valley can be created overnight in Shenzhen. and other developed countries will find difficult to match.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. Your corporate values should also align with your business model. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? Vision is the destination where your organization is heading.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model. Others, like Experian’s DataLabs , encourage researchers and engineers to go to conferences and hold internal seminars on what they learn.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Large numbers of developers responded, and some offered immensely popular applications such as Printicular from MEA Labs , which allows users to print photos at Walgreens from either their phones or their accounts with Facebook, Instagram, or Dropbox. The API is the core engine driving this strategy. Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985. But although mindfulness may seem to be a fairly new phenomenon, it’s not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

As Todd Zenger writes in his recent HBR piece, “ Why Google Became Alphabet ,” investors were somewhat uneasy with Google’s approach of mixing unrelated investments, acquisitions and businesses, because it appeared to limit transparency, accountability and discipline. Lowers the hurdles to acquiring and growing companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal. They know that acquiring the benefits of scale requires ruthless focus on a well-defined core business and a commitment to building the systems and processes to support it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Right now, Amazon’s business model is shopping-then-shipping. Most shoppers have noticed Amazon’s recommendation engine while they shop — it offers suggestions of items that their AI predicts you will want to buy. If this is a better business model, then why hasn’t Amazon done it already?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. In a platform business model, firms create value primarily by connecting users and third parties, and they capture value by charging fees for access to the platform.

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Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? To help support those moving in this direction, Volans and PA Consulting have joined forces with the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest sustainable business platform, with over 9,000 corporate members, to create Project Breakthrough.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. The business model WhatsApp has today is essentially the one it started with. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models. Not every company can (or should) reinvent its business model. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” For example, when a large technology firm integrated specialized engineers into its regional sales teams, there were shifts in roles, client coverage, compensation, goal setting, and teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This means significant growth potential for multinationals who have core competencies in high-tech infrastructure solutions such as jet engines, turbines, CT scanners, and satellite communications. It’s true that India’s ferociously challenging business environment poses challenges for all companies in the consumer economy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While conducting research on recent dramatic cases of strategic failure in different industries, involving vastly different business models and strategies, we discovered a common pattern: What started as small gaps in execution spiraled into business failures when initial strategies were not altered based on new information provided by experience.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Today, the list of disruptive new entrants is expanding and the primary differentiator is clear: they bring new mental models to existing industries and create new business models that customers and investors love. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.”

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. A business model defines how your organization creates and captures value. An operating model defines how your organization delivers the value promised by its business model. Digital leaders are 2.5x

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. These new entrants often bring new business models, and thus measure performance differently than incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Their business models benefit from internet connectivity and they enjoy tremendous network effects. An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Steve Blank, who pioneered the concept of the “lean startup,” has often written that “ no business plan survives first contact with the customer.” ” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Put simply, Fleming didn’t have the requisite skills to engineer his discovery into a practical solution to the problem of disease. Florey reached out to the Rockefeller Foundation, which provided further funding to develop new fermentation methods so that the drug could be mass produced. Second, geniuses rarely act alone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. In this model, the relational approach was one of positional authority and hierarchy.

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