Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. But the more rigorously the use cases were modeled, the more complicated enhancing expectations and efficiencies became.

Process 10

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 The business stayed basically flat in 2000. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses?

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. They are using digital technologies to increase their own efficiency and to improve the customer experience.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

These dynamics make it hard for teams to recognize or to be fully cognizant of new disruptive challenges, while also stifling the creative innovation that is necessary to proactively confront such challenges. We are discounting or ignoring the feedback from our customers, complaints from our critics, or requests from our stakeholders.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

For years, when I spoke with CEOs or senior leaders, it was because they were interested in how my consulting firm could help their employees become more engaged, or innovative, or sustainably high-performing. At times, I know my colleagues felt intimidated and discounted, rather than inspired and empowered. It was a rocky road.

How To 8

How To Self-aware Quality Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. The likely results include new methods of furthering relationships, crafting longer term engagement, and creating transformational business models.

Directory 15

Directory System Media Video 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. It’s hard to get good data on innovation success rates, but most corporate leaders will report that even close-to-the-core efforts fail to deliver on their promise at least a third of the time.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

Addressing these requires a significant shift in mindset and business model – and traditional retailers know it. Additionally, if a client decides to buy all five items in their shipment, they receive a 25% discount off the entire purchase. Reduce complexity through relevant curation. Not at all, says Lake.

Retail 8

Retail Early Adopters Business Model Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Some years ago, doing some research for our book MarketBusters , my colleague Ian MacMillan and I ran across some interesting experiments Progressive Insurance was doing to change the business model in the car insurance market. If, on the other hand, Progressive puts you in the naughty category, sorry, no discount.

Insurance 14

Insurance Discount Incentives System 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online. SME lending can remain a big business for banks, but only with deliberate choices about where to play and how to win.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. Become a remarkable capability innovator, designing and developing your own practices that give you prowess no one else matches.

IAM 9

IAM Productivity Products Company 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The company's beta service allows users to barter MP3 files licensed from iTunes (and soon other digital sellers) to other ReDigi users at discounted prices. ReDigi is another good example of a business model I would call "barely legal by design." In effect, ReDigi operates a market for license transfers among iTunes users.

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. Business in the Era of Blockchain. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When it comes to the etail/retail conundrum, the most innovative companies are finding ways to blend the two. Amazon, nothing if not innovative, hasn't taken that tack — despite several other recent impressive moves. What if Amazon built this technology, and shared the profits with independents?

Retail 15

Retail Long-term Open-book Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. The answer reveals the critical role business models play in determining competitive winners in times of disruptive change.

Business Model 8

Business Model Media Industry Advertising 8