Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. They are transforming each and every business model. Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. While there is certainly merit in questioning your business model, revolutionary business model transformation remains elusive despite the buzz.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Recognizing this fundamental difference, Universal changed its marketing from promoting what it wanted consumers to experience to a testimonial to what the experience was already providing. No longer focusing on their marketing platform – “ride the movies”– they built a new strategy – “Experience an extraordinary escape at Universal.”

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. What disruptive innovations are set to take similarly big strides in 2013? Coming of age.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. Enter Harvard Business School. We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. ” Management Science 56.2 Paper presented at Academy of Management Meetings. v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. market for personal computers. The auto industry is a case in point. Minimize Pain.

Strategy 11

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

That’s what I do for businesses of all sizes. I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Extend your business model beyond what it once was and into new sectors. About the Author.

Franchising 65

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. But by jumping on the buyback bandwagon — something Steve Jobs refused to do — Apple’s current top management has shown the same lack of strategic vision that has undermined many once-great American companies, including Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. This is makes it easier to take decisions and put them into practice very swiftly. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. It makes far more sense to be proactive and explain your business to regulators rather than wait for them to approach you with a concern.

Business Model 10

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. Certainly not VCs.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. They also control for numerous relevant factors, from gender and ethnicity, to part-time vs. full-time, to the strength of the labor market in each year. In other words, many executives do not realize how poorly they’re managing their firms. skills, experience, etc.)

Class 10

Class Video Bottom-up Skills 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. But there are plenty of businesses that appeared to be unassailable at one time that turned out to be vulnerable.

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Axiom is an order of magnitude larger than most new models of legal practice, but it is not the only one nipping at Big Law’s heels. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. Burton Law LLC.) .

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize. These marketplaces don't need to carry inventory.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Australia and China.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Companies are comprised of business units, work groups, communities of practice, and alliances with suppliers, partners and customers. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Traditional economic frictions and barriers to market entry are disappearing.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. (I Cash constraints were a fact of life during my years managing in a startup.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

He spent the early phases of his career there as a product manager, working on products such as Toolbar. Searching the web or email will decline; already, the top five search engines saw traffic declines of up to 31% in a study done over the period December 2013 – May 2014. Find new growth markets – fast.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8