Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Experiment and create a great product, the thinking goes, then scale, and then figure out the business model once you’ve succeeded. However, while good products and good “shopkeeping” are surely good business, they are no substitute for clear-minded strategy. How Do You Plan to Deliver That Value?

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Strategy Competitive Advantage Operations 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry.

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But the CMO Council reports that “only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization.” Others lack the processes and operational capabilities to target them with personalized communications and experiences.

Short-term 9

Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? But when it comes to core classes which don''t require labs or much in-person faculty interaction, does the current model justify the value-price equation?

Education 8

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

I heard the news today, oh boy — Amazon is buying Whole Foods Market in a deal worth nearly $14 billion. In one of our very first issues, back in 1996, we did a deep dive into a strange, offbeat, little-known grocery operation based in Austin, Texas. “Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Long-term 9

Long-term Price Finance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

B2B 14

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2016, country and function heads were asked to identify innovation ambassadors for each of the markets we’re in: 80 people senior enough to connect innovation to strategy and make things happen. They then helped us identify innovation coaches who would be responsible for bringing ideas to life in their respective business units.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s not that the media sets out to be sensationalist; its business model leads it in that direction. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Apple learned this the hard way.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. It meant bringing internal teams together with external thinkers/projects.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Even if business models, traditional processes, and long-standing industry practices are about to be broken up — and they are — when the dust settles one part of your business can and should be stronger than ever: the relationship you have with your customer. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

Insurance 8

Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

It’s also a tough talent market, especially in sales. If companies want to scale, they need to improve their sales processes, and this is especially true of SaaS businesses. It’s also important to keep in mind that sales tasks typically change over the course of a product-market life cycle. 0.01 – $0.10.

CRM 8

CRM B2B Price Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” In fact, platforms are based on one of the most challenging business models there is.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

But to capture the full potential of the shipping container, we needed to change how ports operated, how union employees were compensated, how ships were designed, and the very structure of business in the logistics industry. The Chief Marketing Officer of Mercedes likely won’t be spending millions on 30-second spots.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. And no sector is complete without its own conference. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning is increasingly being used to predict individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across an array of applications — from personalized marketing to precision medicine. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. So how can we mitigate bias in machine learning?

Sample 8

Sample Project Self-aware Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Today’s cloud IT vendors have both the buying power and the operational discipline to minimize the cost to the customer of a unit of data storage or computing power. It may be a long time before cloud transportation companies offer anywhere near the same variety that ownership can confer.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time. After a while, they all think alike. Innovators, by contrast, are contrarians.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8