Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

For some people, starting an independent used car business is the perfect combination of a love of cars and great business skills. Or, at the very least, a desire to develop great business skills. However, building a used car business from the ground up is not as simple as finding cars and selling them on.

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Franchising Licensing Advertising How To 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. The need to improve supply chain compliance does not come from moral arguments alone; the business consequences are also increasingly unescapable.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

In my book, “The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s,” I outline the technologies that will drive unprecedented innovation into products and services in the 2020s, creating entirely new business models. These technologies are: Artificial intelligence (AI).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

This dynamic will persist for many years as technology improves and businesses learn to apply it in new ways. Companies that focus on defending established business models will lose in the long run. Companies with foresight will pursue transitional models to be part of driving the change. Insight Center.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. They must embrace a new leadership model. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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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.

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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. ’ I have built my entire business model on the opposite approach, however. This focused approach should serve as the gold standard for hiring business coaches too.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

Many businesses are somewhere in between. The key point is that long-term sustainability depends on your business having enough relevance with enough people. Part of making this happen is developing the ability to move with the times without losing sight of your core identity. Try to build flexibility into your business.

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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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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. If companies want to change their business models, break out of the norms of their industries and beliefs about value, and earn the highest values from investors, they’ll need to adopt a new perspective.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2023

This results in increased fossil-fuel emissions from transportation, and additionally, many companies, even those that promote sustainability, often discard returned products. This business model is heavily dependent on the depletion of natural resources, the exploitation of labor in developing countries, and the use of fossil fuels.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity. Take transport. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Innovative business models may be required.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

And use a business model with structural cost advantages (relative to existing solutions). The reason these characteristics of disruption are important are that when all three are present, it’s difficult for an existing business to respond to competition. ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model. And 100 years later Elon Musk would see that the future of transportation was no longer in internal combustion engines and build the next great automobile company.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

Apple is so great at connectivity, aesthetics, and entertainment that any vehicle they develop will incorporate these as table stakes. One way to appeal to this demographic (and to the parents who often finance young drivers’ transportation) is to focus on safety.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

To deliver goods and services at that singular instance, industries will adopt production and distribution models. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. It's been developed to satisfy your customers given the technological landscape of the day.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

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.

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Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. New opportunities for investment and development could open up if some formerly congested, polluted, or crime-ridden areas become more livable. Utilities are rolling out smart meters and introducing dynamic pricing schemes.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. It was fundamentally different from the mindset of low-cost frequent and standardized transport that SpaceX embraces today. SpaceX has learned. They think about the future.

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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. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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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. Businesses also will need to determine whether to run their own drones or outsource. Insight Center.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Similarly, the UK's new £600m Big Society Fund was chartered to support new business model innovations in the social sector. What exactly do we mean by this?

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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 goes to look for them systematically in the countryside and transports them to their clinics for free.

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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.

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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. Leading independent power producers, for example, have begun to deploy asset-light, platform-based business models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

It is based on the idea that a business model can readily be transported from one country to another. With limited purchasing power, low credit card usage, and poor delivery networks, it''s clear that the approach for e-commerce in developing markets has to be different than in the U.S. In some cases this is true.

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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.

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