Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2016
Big box retail stores are losing relevance, while e-commerce and specialty stores grow in appeal. As a result, big box retail must shift its strategy — from competing on access and selection to staging big experiences and providing big discounts. is over-retailed. Several dynamics have produced this trend: The U.S.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2017
It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2014
Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. But the corporate landscape is also littered with once-great companies whose strategies became obsolete faster than they were able to reinvent themselves.
Strategy Driven
JANUARY 24, 2011
Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
It was Schultz who famously said “You can walk into [any type of retail store] and you can feel whether the proprietor or the merchant or the person behind the counter has a good feeling about his product. Leaders who master both strategy and execution start by building a bold but executable strategy.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2014
The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.
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