Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Determine the Cost of the Operation. No one wants to buy a new version of an existing, proven product or service for an equal or better price. Understand how much money is available, investigate the cost of different types of promotions, and think about the right ideas for these methods and how effective they are for the price range.

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LDRLB

JULY 23, 2012

The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The new economy doesn’t operate that way. But they cannot be permitted to lead; make them play catch-up by continuing to strategically innovate. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. I suggest you do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On Friday, Microsoft slashed the price of Windows 8.1 The magnitude of this price cut was surprising; all that was missing was a pitchman screaming “If you call now, we’ll throw in a free Tae Bo workout DVD — a $29.95 To counter this sales drop, Microsoft did what I call a surgical discount strike.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. .” ” Narayana Health brought innovative practices honed in India to HCCI to offer first-rate care for 25-40% of U.S. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

First, Jet has an alluring pledge to bring the Costco warehouse pricing model to the web. The Good: Jet is innovative in providing discounts to motivate consumers to behave in a manner that is good for the company — a hallmark of a great pricing strategy. In return for a $49.99 This may be the case now.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Augusto was officially the head of operations, but his real job was as the right-hand man of the company''s diretor presidente, who had informally dubbed him "head of customer satisfaction." So Lins was extremely frugal, always opting for minimum orders and negotiating relentlessly for low prices. Cora was the sales director.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Great service and an innovative pricing strategy. Operators have to purchase a medallion license and abide by a series of rules (including a rigid pricing structure) in return for the right to pick-up passengers who hail service from the street. Uber’s dynamic pricing strategy effectively turns taxis into sitting ducks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Winning with low prices is not merely a game of math in which you stay one notch below the competition; it is far more a game of culture and attitude. It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The groundbreaking price war in the U.S. Don’t fight them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

How will they fare in a world where intelligent pricing algorithms subtly collude with one another? Before we get to how pricing algorithms might collude, it’s worth reviewing the state of antitrust regulation in the U.S. If you fix prices, you have few if any legal defenses. antitrust policy over the past 30 years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Managing death more effectively can provide numerous benefits: It can boost profits significantly, lower the cost of capital, and reduce complexity in operations, which can improve the performance of concepts that are in the early and midlife stages. Managers also frequently did not discount deeply enough early in a liquidation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

When I argue that e-commerce isn’t likely to destroy innovative omnichannel retailers , I typically receive passionate responses. In general, however, e-commerce operations aren’t as cheap to run as most people think. in operating margins over the past three years. But Amazon’s prices aren’t uniformly lower than competitors’.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

” In Amazon’s growing brick-and-mortar bookstores, Prime members can buy books for discounted prices, while others have to pay the cover price. The company’s obsession with competing with Amazon also seems to have taken Walmart’s focus off its brand identity in everyday low prices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Companies are using AI in all kinds of innovative ways to advance their businesses. Today, an AI algorithm could tell you what the ideal discount rate should be for a proposal to ensure that you’re most likely to win the deal by looking at specific features of each past deal that was won or lost. JW LTD/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the same time, dramatically increased price competition by discounters such as Aldi severely undercut Tesco’s “every little helps” value proposition. Regardless, Tesco’s collective failures feel operational, organizational and cultural. Tesco was digital before digital was cool.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. And built-to-stock cars have extended turnover times, making dealers hesitate to order expensive options only to be forced to sell cars at discounts. With real-time monitoring and improved analytics, German machine operators are also increasingly avoiding replacing parts too early or too late.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. But the average discount on full-time MBA tuition at high-ranking private U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. Were we a price cutter?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

But the key for innovators across industries is that the size of the data isn’t the most critical factor — having the right data is. But for innovators the key is figuring out what those critical pieces of data are that drive competitive position. It’s Not About Big or Small. Getting to the Right Data for the Job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

An interesting battle is looming over Apple's newspaper and magazines subscription pricing for iOS devices (notably the iPad). They can offer an app that allows consumers to buy individual issues of their content or to subscribe to it from within the app; the publisher sets the pricing. Apple's offer to publishers is simple.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Ordinarily the harm from monopolies are higher prices, less output, or reduced quality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

He had an amazing legacy: Senior VP of Retail Operations at Apple pioneering the concept of the Apple Retail stores and the Genius Bar. And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J. Penney: get rid of nonstop price promotions and introduce boutique "stores within the store." Penney's customers to the store.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Its presence was so overwhelming that city, state, and federal governments tried almost every weapon available to force it to abandon discount pricing. He convinced his father and brother to open a bare-bones store with a single employee, a limited product selection, no credit, no home delivery — and rock-bottom prices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Kalanick gets the same on Didi Chuxing’s board, and Uber gets around a 20% share of the Chinese company, which will run Uber’s Chinese operation as a separate brand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In many markets, there is only one main provider, at the most two, and they shadow-price each other, meaning they make sure prices charged to insurance companies are similar. What’s more, the primary insurer in each state dictates insurance coverage rates no matter what prices they negotiate with health care providers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Insurers strive to lower the prices they pay while the hospital’s contract administrators attempt to preserve top-line revenues. Harvard Pilgrim agreed, therefore, to pay most of the bundled price 30 to 60 days after the surgical event; the remainder would be held back until the guaranteed outcome could be assessed at the 365-day mark.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. You must move from B2C to B2B, or vice versa.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Take Costco, the super successful warehouse store that operates under the shelter of the umbrella corporation called simply COST or even Sam’s Club as well, the similarly modeled business arm of Walmart. You have to be willing to buy in bulk, but if you are, the savings can be substantial. What’s not to love?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

They auctioned the bottles off at Christie’s at an average price of 300 euros, a price that put the Portuguese wine on par with high-end Bordeaux. For example, some of the innovative fuselage material in a Boeing Dreamliner could also be used to make wall panels or roofs for houses. Here’s another example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But some companies have what I call rural DNA – the ability to recognize the rural opportunity and to develop innovations to tap those markets along with their urban markets. Particularly in Asia, Unilever has pioneered a number of innovations that it has exported to other regions in its focus on addressing rural market opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. While the price of Ether has been rising , Bitcoin has dropped 20% to $1,000 dollars from a record $1,290 on March 3, 2017. Insight Center.

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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. Zooming in on the sales challenge helps to highlight the difficulty of business model innovation.

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