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. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. SpaceX developed a plan for sustaining the lower-cost business model over many years.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 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. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Appliances and engines now send alerts when they need to be serviced. What makes the Internet of Things possible is the confluence of multiple technologies: inexpensive sensors, wireless networks, and cloud computing. The Internet of Things is already expected to transform customer service , business models , and advertising.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Wireless Competitive Advantage 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

They realize that the old ways of doing business will no longer work. They seek to better themselves as professionals and to rethink the business models. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Business is a livelihood for some.

Transportation 67

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. Historically, the resources sector followed a dig-and-deliver model, where success was mainly about the size and quality of assets. Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). But Boeing is no stranger to subcontracting. The pendulum swung too far."

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 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

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. This model made sense for a few reasons.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

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

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. How the best companies get up to speed. The reason? These groups must work together.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Which customer had the biggest impact on new value creation? What customer would matter most in five years? The answer, he declared, was now obvious.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. But a little innovation goes a surprisingly long way.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” They are becoming costs of doing business that must be paid by all but provide distinction to none.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit. But Lieberman and Fry have some good news: modern technology can address the root of the problem. Thus, a post-scarcity world, premised on cooperation, would emerge.

Technology 8

Technology Cooper Efficiency Globalization 8