N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Let’s just take a moment and look at a few notable examples of what happens to companies that become complacent…Why didn’t the railroads innovate? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

Business Model 361

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Damage control, crisis management mode. Operational Statistics. One out of every 12 businesses fails.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon, the upscale retailer of yoga clothing, is doing great. Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

million per year , raising $194 million net in total for them over a five-year period — a huge sum in any vernacular, and unheard of in retail charitable fundraising. There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. The 3-Days were 75% of our business.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 13