Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

Combining sound judgment with imaginative vision, Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models. Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first mass market personal computer. Management'

Mass Marketing 150

Mass Marketing Follow-up Maturity Operations 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

We are all accustomed to new offerings from Amazon.com: in fact, since its inception in 1995, Amazon has fundamentally changed its business model several times. Back then, Amazon’s operation was organized around a “sell all, carry few” business model: while offering more than a million books it actually stocked only about 2,000.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Outsourcing Maturity 8

Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2012

Like any young business these areas will take time to mature and determine which lines will drive consistent revenue. Companies like Groupon have the ability to use their business model to make a positive impact on our communities, something Groupon is passionate about.

Project 209

Project Incentives Retail Business Model 209

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

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. It's something that U.S.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. Note: I fully recognize CPG companies do not fit this business model, but there are trillions of dollars represented in many other categories that do). The marketing waterfall leans heavily on the customer acquisition objective.

Marketing 52

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They adapt quickly and predict trends by continuously curating and analyzing data and developing insights that drive new value. IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. Groupon's fundamental problem is that it has not yet discovered a viable business model. The company asserts that it will be profitable once it reaches scale but there is little reason to believe this.

Christensen 16

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform. However, this varies dramatically based on organizations’ digital maturity. So, how are more digitally mature IT departments leading the way in transformation? As organizations develop new business models, they need their suppliers to provide a different level of support.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

However, looking at the full extent of Xiaomi’s business model reveals just how different – and how disruptive — it is. So essentially its profit formula is the opposite of Apple’s, which collects its highest profits with the introduction of each model and needs to come up with new model after new model to keep those margins up.

Industry 14

Industry Price Business Model Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts. No wonder employees like them. trillion euros.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development. The result? Seize the Cash.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. The Silicon Valley Model.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

How it will impact business, industry, and society. By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. It’s time for boards and executives to ask themselves hard questions about how the new mobility could affect their business models.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the wake of digital disruption, new media companies are seeking scale and legitimacy, while old media companies explore new business models. The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. As more platishers mature, they may find themselves facing similar conundrums.

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy. If emerging markets are attractive, why is so much investment capital flowing to mature markets? These executives said they are pinning their hopes for growth in the U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Managers need to understand the role of technological maturity, the value of experience, and how employees’ technical skills develop under different business models. The reason: a combination of new technology and a new business model. But this new business model demanded different sorts of skills.

Education 8

Education Technology Business Model Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. So when it comes to new-product development, which function should have greater influence with the senior management team, R&D or marketing?

Marketing 8

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. But when circumstances change, the business model must shift as well. Discuss challenges openly.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Management Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It is driven by shared purposes and depends on the maturity of people to be honest and truthful with each other and transparent in learning from mistakes and failures. Increasingly, this element is becoming an essential foundation for leveraging digital technologies and impacting business performance.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

As the base grows, the amount of new business needed to make a material difference in earnings also rises, increasing the pressure on sales to find new markets, new categories, and new geographies. A company''s growth is also inhibited by market maturity. The challenge of course is what to do about it. Economy Innovation Strategy'

Company 8

Company Succession Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

However, when assessing blockchain business models, it is useful to understand what blockchain can’t do. While the technology is early stage, as these key complements mature, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally reshape ownership over digital data, and the digital platforms we use every day.

Advertising 8

Advertising Technology Consensus Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Apple, DuPont and IBM are all wonderful examples of companies that have completely redefined their businesses through the pursuit of transformative endeavors. In the first part of this series , I argued that the reason most mature businesses can't innovate is because they're not designed to innovate. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

And use a business model with structural cost advantages (relative to existing solutions). The reason these characteristics of disruption are important are that when all three are present, it’s difficult for an existing business to respond to competition. ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g., 3) Developer Driven Sales.

Marketing 8

Marketing Productivity Products Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

They spent a lot of time "testing the waters," "experimenting," and "building prototypes," while younger, nimbler companies took to the web with ease, shattering established business models along the way. They're failing to take control and develop a plan. Think of Yahoo!, Once again, too many CEOs are hesitating.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?" It''s not about price, or code, or agile development.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But just when we’ve sorted out preferred management routines, there is an entirely new landscape emerging with technology options central to the work and possibly your business model: work automation. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Insurance Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . This requires balancing your level of experience with the maturity of companies you approach: the goal is to find boss-mentors who have learned by building a team before but who aren’t so senior you can’t get direct mentorship. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Every company requires a way of calibrating its strategy to the growth drivers in its industry, and developing a geographic value map. We call that process the A-B-C (which stands for Analyze-Benchmark-Calibrate) of developing a globalization strategy. Benchmark all the economies for which reliable data are available.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Amazon has plunked itself smack dab in the middle of their own business models and aspirations. Cloud and mobile technologies are generations away from maturity. The ultimate competition here isn't just for customers and their time; it will be for developers, creatives, and innovators of all kinds.

Innovation 10

Innovation Technology Software Fast Follower 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system. A hardware company accustomed to instant feedback, in the form of revenues, on its products' market success often panics at the slow pace of the software market revenue model.

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. Open source software enables entrepreneurs to stand up businesses capabilities quickly and cheaply; Sourceforge , for example, is a platform allowing 2.7 We could go on, but we don't need to.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

” Yet most major technologies develop over decades, as large numbers of people learn how to apply, adapt, and improve the initial invention. It took decades for the training institutions, business models, and labor markets to emerge that unlocked the benefits of technology for ordinary workers.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer are both first-time office holders coming to public service directly from successful private sector business careers. Both new mayors ran and won on economic development platforms. I'll admit this is based on a quick impression. Talk about total immersion.

Innovation 14

Innovation Entrepreneur Kaplan Class 14