Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Yet even though SKF has a century-long track record of keeping the wheels of industry turning, this new vision of bearings with brains by no means assures that SKF will prosper in the changeover in technology represented by the internet of things, in which every conceivable object can become a node on the net. That lag poses dangers.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most customers are interested in your content first (how much you know about their pain points) before purchasing your products or services. You (Inhouse) Sometimes the best content comes from those who know your product or service best, you. It's not necessarily about the client's product or service itself. (No It grows sales.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

There is a big, important change happening in digital product design. For a long time, there has been a clear split between business software (often called Enterprise or B2B ), and consumer software (B2C, or simply “products”). That split is increasingly irrelevant.

Software 8

Software Supply Chain B2C Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. They are less affected, but not immune.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. “It’s tribal.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. They really know what the customer wants.”. In some industries (e.g.

Marketing 8

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The idea is as simple as this: why not have a mobile demonstration van for products, to take a fully-equipped, immersive selling experience to customers’ own sites? They’re envisioning well-designed, self-contained environments, tricked-out with the latest high-tech, high-touch technology.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

But instead of adopting multiple martial art styles, more B2C companies are using mixed business models, or MBM, to win. Technology companies have done this particularly well. Many were perplexed in late 2007, when Google announced they would build a mobile operating system, seemingly far afield of their core online advertising model.

Business Model 9

Business Model Advertising Retail Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA," Kaufer remarked. Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8