The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

What can set them apart is their ability to influence their internal processes (orientation and business model) and immediate external environment (networks) to ensure they remain future-ready.”. Organizational agility.

Company 127

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

In my book, “The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s,” I outline the technologies that will drive unprecedented innovation into products and services in the 2020s, creating entirely new business models. Better supply chains. Blockchain.

Technology 99

Technology Innovation Supply Chain Company 99

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2020

To set yourself up for success, you need to understand how to develop a strong business model and to avoid the potential pitfalls that could thwart your venture’s growth and profitability. To kickstart your idea, here are 10 helpful points to help with starting a business that will succeed. Earn a Business Degree.

Supply Chain 65

Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 65

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

To set yourself up for success, you need to understand how to develop a strong business model and to avoid the potential pitfalls that could thwart your venture’s growth and profitability. To kickstart your idea, here are 10 helpful points to help with starting a business that will succeed. Earn a Business Degree.

Supply Chain 68

Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 68

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

Talent Management 167

Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

We’ll also offer some examples of how digitally native businesses have addressed these challenges. What’s important is that your management team is aware of these issues and can use that understanding to develop a solution that fits your business and allows you to deliver the most value to your customers.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". billion by 2030. This shift is easier said than done.

Marketing 12

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority. Investing in the supply chain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Here are some considerations for businesses contemplating a Go-to-India strategy: Market Selection. How do you build trust and verify the integrity of the market participants? How will your business impact the mom-and-pop kirana stores? What can you learn from other emerging markets (Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, etc.)?

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Eighty-seven percent of senior business leaders say that digitalization is now a priority and in many cases is a do-or-die imperative. Our research shows that a company’s ability to gain strategic clarity on its path to business model transformation is crucial to its success. But in some companies, strategists are bolder.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). failure to manage relations effectively with local business partners.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

The potential size of the worldwide online grocery market combined with these spin-off opportunities is why grocery really is the holy grail of online retail. That’s the end business case we put forward at Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer, currently operating in the UK.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. In a platform business model, firms create value primarily by connecting users and third parties, and they capture value by charging fees for access to the platform.

Process 10

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Growing Digital Business.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. Her research found that another 26 percent have created the service level, but not the reusable components that make developing new offerings fast and efficient.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. To deliver goods and services at that singular instance, industries will adopt production and distribution models. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. Think about this.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. Adopt some new beliefs about technology, value, and business models. Their inadequacy is not surprising…given their training and development. This is quite a shift.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Companies are right to be worried.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Frito-Lay’s direct-to-store delivery capability, Inditex’s fast-fashion supply chain, and Toyota’s production system took years to hone into true sources of enterprise differentiation. But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Technology-based companies can drive transformation in many existing markets of course – just look at the battles brewing between traditional taxi companies and Uber, a mobile app that connects passengers with drivers. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

It's time to bring a proven business model to the social enterprise space: the franchise. We conflate inventors with developers of social enterprises and romanticize the celebrity social entrepreneur. We should package proven social business models that motivated franchisees could copy. Support the franchises.

Franchising 8

Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

Many businesses are somewhere in between. The key point is that long-term sustainability depends on your business having enough relevance with enough people. Part of making this happen is developing the ability to move with the times without losing sight of your core identity. Your supply chain plays a huge role in your success.

Strategy 111

Strategy Long-term Supply Chain Transportation 111

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Support entrepreneurial business growth. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? Ecosystems like these are moving beyond linear supply chains to partner with providers of complementary products and services (or sometimes even competitors). Organizational leadership.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

For the social network companies, it didn’t take long to realize that the latter form of value creation should be the real focus of their business models. Making Money with Digital Business Models. That business becomes a powerful platform provider, and establishes a strong, sustainable advantage.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hotels Reputation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, it was assumed that conventional oil reserves would be developed by national oil companies and major oil and gas companies to supply virtually all of the world’s oil demand. These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades. That has enabled the U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. But university efforts to bring research to market are even more important. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

But these co-creation models produce only one-off physical goods, and none represents a fundamental shift in how these companies create value; they’re peripheral to the core business. expertise and relationships) assets, firms can gain these advantages of the Network Orchestration business model.

CRM 8

CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. Create your own internal robo-advisory service : Companies could develop their own robotic or semi-robotic advice for key decision domains.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

Put another way, Uber’s business model extends a very complex supply chain beyond the boundaries of a corporation in a way that creates real results without any planning in advance. Rather, they focus on creating a market where people with cars can connect with people who need rides.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Used to its full potential, this is predictive medicine — the ability to integrate and analyze known disease characteristics with a specific patient’s history and health status, and use the resulting insights to change outcomes and inform new directions for life sciences research and development. They’re also sharing risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? What structural changes to the business environment are triggered by Brexit, and how do we adapt to them? ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. What are the first-response imperatives for corporate leaders?

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8