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. and to other countries.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Airlines Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

As organizations expand and grow, the skills that led to success often won’t sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. ’ I have built my entire business model on the opposite approach, however.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

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.

Transportation 78

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 78

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

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

” We developed a partnership with the Design Management Institute who helped us target about 15 different programs or projects that had a really strong design focus but weren’t the traditional product management or product development stories. DAVID: I think that’s an interesting distinction.

Innovation 104

Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.” We need to be more like Oracle.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla and Elon Musk?

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. The same, I’d suggest, is true about illegal business models. Uber’s Fundamental Illegality. Fixing the Problem.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. Today, new transportation vendors like Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, and Grabtaxi are changing our relationship with cars. Some of the same factors that have driven the transformation in IT help point the way toward the future of transportation. The first is convenience.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

. “In some offshore wind applications, changing the main bearing on a turbine is so expensive that it undermines the business case for building the turbine in the first place,” said Filippo Zingariello, director of global strategic development at SKF. The race toward new industrial business models.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

When confronted with an ethical decision – e.g. whether to dump toxic waste in a developing country, where it may not be illegal, when all your competitors do so as well – it sometimes costs you (a lot of) money to do the right thing. It is a very profitable operation; the company has a gross margin of 50 percent.

Management 9

Management Learning Curve Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In transportation, American railroad BNSF is partnering with the Federal Aviation Administration to test drones for remote track and bridge inspection and air quality monitoring. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. million in investment capital in just the past year. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Namely, more and more of the on-demand businesses we see on a daily basis are being founded atop increasingly weaker value propositions; convenience without any sort of sustainable cost advantage. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

But a different development is emerging in the area traditionally known as CSR. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth. And its self-serve stores save labor costs.

Brand 9

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

By 2016, SABMiller had brewing operations in around forty of Africa’s fifty-four countries. With its equipment-supplier partners, SABMiller developed a standardized “brewery in a box” that it could quickly assemble. In Nigeria, for example, SABMiller developed a new brand, Hero.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 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

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The business model – where peers can offer and purchase goods and services from each other through an online platform – continues to be applied to new industries from car sharing to peer-to-peer fashion, among many others. Many sharing economy business models do raise legitimate concerns about user safety, privacy and access.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

From elementary and secondary education to defense and security, from transportation to health care, government is either a dominant or the dominant buyer in many markets. Given its size, the public sector can shape the markets in which it operates by taking cues from the private sector. What exactly do we mean by this?

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They can continue to conduct business as usual, fighting for pieces of a shrinking pie – or they can change their thinking and their business models and adapt to new realities. Market participants who can collect, organize and analyze this data will have inherent advantages over those with less developed capabilities.

Insurance 8

Insurance Software Business Model Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Transportation barriers are common among patients with chronic diseases and represent a significant impediment to improving patient outcomes. Among patients receiving dialysis, for example, those who rely on a transportation service are at an increased risk of missing hemodialysis treatments.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

New jobs that could not have been imagined at the time, such as app developer or MRI technician, have replaced obsolete ones, such as switchboard operators. These activities are most prevalent in sectors such as manufacturing, food services, transportation and warehousing, and retail. trillion of wages in the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Technology Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations. It's not just that a system perspective is better than a narrower one for achieving sustainability goals.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Licensing 8

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Companies are right to be worried.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. The first is organizational myopia.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8