Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Can we execute it–does it align with our core competencies? The next challenge is to strike the right balance between getting the most out of these opportunities AND keeping your performance engine humming. If it takes off in the best possible way, will the benefits be worth it? Butter before Jam. Cake before icing.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Core Competence Middle Management 8

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

One of the most popular apps is Google Search, which is also the primary source of Google’s advertising revenue and therefore is vital to Google’s business model. Moreover, it has also reduced the incentives of manufacturers to pre-install competing search apps, as well as the incentives of consumers to download such apps.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Managers assess performance.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Managers assess performance.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s been estimated that India needs $5 trillion in infrastructure investment to sustain its economic growth, but local Indian companies lack the competencies needed. It’s true that India’s ferociously challenging business environment poses challenges for all companies in the consumer economy.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Rethink the role of partnerships in your business model. Adopting a software mentality should include rethinking your business model to include partnerships with others who can help form richer ecosystems, generate network effects, and improve your overall value proposition.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Similarly, data can reveal weak points in a business model, allowing for timely corrections. With numerous tools and software available today, even small businesses can harness the power of data analytics to guide their decisions. Leverage Content Marketing and SEO In the digital age, online presence is paramount.

Tactics 106

Tactics Content Core Competence Marketing 106

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8