First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers Niraj Dawar Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why downstream, customer-led activities and preferences will dominate the competitive landscape in the future Niraj Dawar offers an exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking examination and explanation of what could be viewed – what (..)

Review 75

Review Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage Books 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

Retail 12

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The need to decentralize organizations around employees — viewing them as assets capable of expanding growth rather than as fixed costs to be eliminated — and to move away from standardized and tightly-specified process flows. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

Drucker 10

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Before looking at what can and should be done, it’s important to note that the public and private sectors have already made significant strides in reducing the growth in health care costs and improving quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. But there are also extrinsic factors that complicate the relationship.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8