Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

Investing in fixed assets. Investopedia defines an asset as an economically valuable resource owned, controlled, or acquired with the expectation that it will appreciate later. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period. Investing in marketing. Buying the right insurance.

Entrepreneur 88

Entrepreneur Fixed Assets Insurance Outsourcing 88

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. Multinational beer companies have responded by investing in or acquiring large craft brewers such as Lagunitas, Craft Brew Alliance, and Goose Island to gain an immediate foothold in the market.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. Start from the opposite direction: Find an attractive market that values what you do best! There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.

Strategy 15

Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

Politics 12

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For example, during 1987-2000, the annual inventory turnover at Best Buy Stores, a consumer electronics retailer, ranged from 2.85 Consider the following example that Vishal Gaur of Cornell, my frequent co-author, shared with me. A common one is inventory turns (cost of sales divided by inventory) or its inverse, days of inventory.

Retail 13

Retail Marketing Benchmarking Fixed Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. .” The differences were dramatic.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8