The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The researchers analyzed data from across the OECD in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, utilities, services, transportation, and finance sectors, including data on payroll, output, and total employment. What is clear from the data in these sectors is that a relatively small number of highly competitive firms have dominated each market.

GDP 71

GDP Outsourcing Retail Finance 71

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

This is despite the concerns on data security surrounding cloud technology. Furthermore, 70% of transportation and retail firms outsource portions of their services. This flexibility covers service, delivery, and pricing. Businesses will incorporate these technologies to interact with their customers. Outsourcing Trends.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For example, you will need to realistically consider staff salaries, transportation fees, advertisement expenditure, material prices, equipment and technology costs, plus more. For example, you must be within close proximity to great public transport links, so your employees can reach your facility with ease.

How To 58

How To Transportation Advertising Banking 58

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 4, 2019

Often we think of these in terms of markets, but perhaps a more useful application is through the lens of what marketers refer to as the ‘big seven’ These are the seven industries that are believed to account for around 94% of all consumer spending (in the United States at least).

Innovation 66

Innovation Influence Cost Transportation 66

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 2, 2011

The two-year limit, in use for 33 years, made it difficult for economists to compare the recent recession's damage to the job market with other downturns in the past. There's a price to be paid for the excesses of the past decade; the U.S. Until now, all those who have been unemployed for 99 weeks or more were counted as one group.

Long-term 99

Long-term Hotels Transportation Information Technology 99

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

We explored these and other questions with pricing strategy author and consultant Rafi Mohammed. First off: From a pricing perspective, is Haystack a good idea? Haystack provides a solution to a key market failure in popular parking areas: meter prices are too cheap, which results in excess demand. Absolutely!

Price 8

Price Transportation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Uber has quickly become one of the hottest startups in the technology sector. 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.

Price 8

Price Transportation Discount Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. are just beginning to debate the potential of pricing carbon on a national scale, California is once again ahead of the curve. The market will decide that.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. Beginning with gathering basic resources and ending with delivering goods to customers, markets and businesses will optimize the value chain in order to deliver goods and services to consumers at optimal levels.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

After sharing that I help companies improve their pricing strategies, many smirk and flippantly retort, "Oh, ripping off the consumer." Many states have anti-gouging laws that curb price increases during disasters. In California, for instance, the maximum that retailers can raise prices after an emergency is 10%.

Price 8

Price Retail Incentives Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Conversely, during peak times, Uber can dynamically raise its prices while taxis are tied to the same static one-size-fits-all rates. Uber is further capitalizing on this uneven pricing field by running sales this summer. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, for instance, the company cut UberX prices by an additional 25%.

Transportation 8

Transportation Discount Price Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

The fact that incumbent taxi medallion owners and black car booking agents had even more usurious rates helped Uber get away with this pricing model. International markets: Uber is the big daddy of ride-hailing platforms in the US, but its dominance is far from global. In many international markets it faces strong competitors.

Transportation 8

Transportation Business Model Efficiency Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chain management has immense potential to enhance business operations, improve productivity, and increase a business’s agility to changing market trends and customer demand. Increased communication between these parties is vital for a business to increase market agility and reduce production and dispersal delays.

Supply Chain 104

Supply Chain Agility Management Operations 104

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Utilities are rolling out smart meters and introducing dynamic pricing schemes. But that’s only one side of the story.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Earlier this year, I received an invitation on behalf of the Tata Center for Technology and Design and the Department of Mechanical Engineering to speak at MIT about my work on reverse innovation. However, this also presents some of the hardest technical challenges for humanity, where we cannot simply adapt solutions used in wealthy markets.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs.

Company 9

Company Creativity Retail Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. Even when regulators try to reduce prices, firms can benefit.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. The turnaround can’t be attributed to a bold, Da Vinci-esque initiative such as new carbon fiber aircraft, the pioneering of new markets or even low-cost innovation. Strategy Transportation' So what happened?

Airlines 8

Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Keeping the world at 1.5

Efficiency 10

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

But what’s more likely is that in order to take full advantage of this new technology, everything will have to change. The very beginning of this transformation is apparent in the rise of cloud transportation services like Uber, Zipcar, and others. We certainly won’t need driver’s seats any longer.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

In principle, it doesn’t really matter if you do this through old-school leaflet drops or ecommerce marketing. It was, however, also due to issues with transport, especially long-distance transport. These may entail changes to how you price it. Leveraging technology may be key to your post-COVID19 success.

Strategy 110

Strategy Long-term Supply Chain Transportation 110

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend.

Company 8

Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

No family should pay an unjust price for progress, he announced, yet automation should not be viewed as an enemy. A half-century later, technology has advanced at breakneck speed. Today there is concerned debate about the impact of technology on the economy and especially on the future of work. ” The U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Technology Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. Instead, it was a byproduct.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

Maturity 8

Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The shortage of transport capacity relative to demand will have a profound effect on businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Marketers will talk about shopping trips, shopping missions, shopping baskets, shopping lists, and destination trips. Hence, brands engage in an arms race of persuasion and hard-sell tactics (prices, promos, presence) at the point-of-sale order to sway the customer when she is ready to transact. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Retail 8

Retail Transportation Tactics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. The company had experienced no organic growth in over a decade, the stock price had melted away and it was seeking growth in all the wrong places. We soon figured out why.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 11