Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
Third, firms understate their depreciation expense because they assume that their long-lived assets will retain their worth over the long term — even though technological change increasingly makes them obsolete. Such misplaced optimism potentially masks underinvestment in technology needed to keep up with the competition.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2014
More impressively, by linking all the machines together, they were able to predict — and subsequently improve — overall process reliability and product quality. And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 11, 2012
In another example Innosight has researched, Xerox was forced to lay off nearly 40,000 of its 91,000 workers from 2000 to 2005 to return to profitability and make way for its transformation from a technology company into a services company. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Starbucks and Keurig share two essential qualities that are typical in category creators: 1. Starbucks delivered not just high-quality coffee but personalization, badge value, and an affordable luxury experience. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. At this point, the commercial viability of a market-based approach to providing good quality housing in urban areas at prices affordable to low income customers is beyond question. The Use of Available Technology.
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