Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

With the first half of 2015 past us, here's a look back at the three most read postings on my leadership blog so far this year. Readers will quickly become adept at : Leveraging all the lean resources around them , from their own skill set, local community, and personal circles to professional networks, online resources, and technology tools.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Leadership Advice Entrepreneur 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

Platform models are often lauded as the path to the next disrupted industry. A platform business model creates an ecosystem that promotes shared value in place of traditionally transactional relationships — think of eBay or Airbnb, businesses that actually broker trust between buyer and seller instead of stocking inventory.

Business Model 8

Business Model Mission Statement Decentralization Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Too much money is spent on attention-grabbing activities that are straightforward to do, like hiring new people, procuring new technologies, and buying more facilities. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets.

Budgeting 14

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 14

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. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Today, even the smallest businesses can capitalize on the power of digital platforms to better understand their customers’ needs and behaviors, engage with them more effectively, and provide customized offerings. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. In 2015, more than $10.5 Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Price eBook Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The right technologies, however, can be incredibly valuable, driving customer satisfaction and possibly even providing a sustainable competitive advantage. Start by identifying those, and then use digital technology to alleviate them. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center. Elevating customer service.

Trends 12

Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

Productivity 11

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

They also illuminated what could become a vast chasm between traditional privacy and security laws and regulations and rapidly evolving internet-related business models and activities. To ensure that they do, internet and technology companies must engage with legislators in a different way, beyond the transactional and fleeting.

Policies 8

Policies Long-term Ethics Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

CEO 14

CEO Agility Technology Industry 14

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. To think of it this way “ obscures Alibaba’s breakthrough business model and the window it provides on how the economic scene is evolving.” billion dollars. Before 9:30 a.m.,

Business Model 235

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

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 has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 14

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 14

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Instead of selling clinic visits, hospitalizations, or technologies to prospective patients, a health system organized around key clinical processes finds its business model driven toward population-level health. Correctly managed, they lead naturally to patient-centered care.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. ” In June 2015 survey, the question revealed that public confidence had slumped across all major institutions, except the military and small business, to a historic low. The result of this shift is not only the emergence of disruptive new business models.

Drucker 8

Drucker Hotels Decentralization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them. On top of its partnership with Square, Starbucks invested heavily in building digital technology, particularly its payment platform and mobile app.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

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. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. No wonder employees like them. trillion euros.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades. But during the past decade, American shale oil and gas producers pioneered a new business model that shattered the incumbents’ approach. These “unconventional oil and gas producers” in the U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Of course, there are indeed strong examples of digital converts who have completed this assimilation successfully and built world-class digital marketing organizations that reimagine brand engagement, and even reinvent business models. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. Thinking local is strategic to appropriately examine competing business models.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The ECJ ruling has implications for all multinational businesses that handle European data, and it dilutes the “proportionality test,” where businesses claim that the economic effort of deleting personally identifiable data is damaging to their business models. Information & technology Innovation'

Innovation 8

Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

He noted how Singapore Agency for Science, Technology & Research ( A*STAR ) has told P&G that sustainability is "no longer a program, it is part of how we do our work.". Bruce Brown used this phrase to describe how P&G will achieve its stated goal of serving 5 billion consumers by the year 2015 (an increase of 800 million from today).

Innovation 15

Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online. And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online.

Banking 14

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Though none of these tweaks can be claimed to be a technological breakthrough, they have collectively helped Grab win over local consumers.

Transportation 12

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

However, their high volume–low margin business model also makes them vulnerable to threats such as competition, increasing wholesale prices, and changing consumer demands. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Technology is an important enabler here too. Partner with farmers in the supply chain.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

million apps as of July 2015. So while the App Economy booms, there are signs that its rapid expansion is a challenge for the current search, marketing, and monetization models — models that have been largely fashioned by blockbuster app titles and the big spenders behind them.

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

By 2015, according to my own firm''s projections , not only will 75 percent of the world''s population have access to the internet. And, starting now, they must create the organizations and web-based business models that can turn these ideas into reality. So will some six billion devices.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Can the elephant dance again? Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, platforms are based on one of the most challenging business models there is. A smaller number of participants who actually want to do business with each other is much more important than a larger number of participants who don’t care so much. percent in June 2015, to 0.6 percent in November 2014, to 0.8

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Where traditional business models sell products and/or services, matchmaking models sell reduced transaction costs. The platform investment model, however, creates multi-sided surplus — more value to sell. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Successful platforms empower their users.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models. billion in 2010 to $4.9

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8