Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

They had to deal with cancelled orders and supply chain disruptions, as well as employees needing more flexible schedules or being unable to work remotely due to inadequate home office setups. Challenge Business Model Assumptions. The first step is to evaluate assumptions about the business model.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But a problem that’s becoming ever more visible is that some organisations have made authenticity their marketing strategy, rather than a business one. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation. Because business has to be about more than just profit.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As consumers are more and more demanding that they see the provenance of items they purchase to ensure they align with their values, leaders are being forced to rethink their supply chain and the materials that they use. No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets.

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Emotional Intelligence Supply Chain Short-term Leadership 209

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.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. And what are your strategic goals?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

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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.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

And today, the nearly two billion user profiles it captured serve as the backbone for one of the largest advertising businesses ever created. Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. The Challenge of Building an Ecosystem.

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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. The full Webinar is available here.

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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 true innovation. Investing in the supply chain.

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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.)?

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Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Car dealers and more generally intermediaries represent an extra layer of companies in the supply chain that clearly increases costs to customers. But in many cases they also serve important functions in a supply chain and can create more value than the inefficiencies they cause. But the car market is no longer like this.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. But the more rigorously the use cases were modeled, the more complicated enhancing expectations and efficiencies became.

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Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. And services have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

"A properly integrated business model forms the essence of a company''s competitive advantage," my colleague Mark Johnson advises. I was in one of the Shanghai locations of a chain of hot pot restaurants called Hai Di Lao. It''s generally hard to copy this kind of interdependent innovation. Competition Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

What’s emerging is what I call the “StoreHouse” — a hybrid model that merges the physical benefits of a real-world store with the convenience of home. To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising.

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Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 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.

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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.

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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. Calva also oversees the company’s innovation group, as well as the day-to-day operations of IT. “We have to be able to support our businesses through digital.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Collaborative innovations.

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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. Fostering innovation.

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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. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate. Comparable challenges exist for supply chain management and external partnerships: their collective intelligence may be ripe for algorithmic harvesting, but how well will it link to the rest of the enterprise?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Support entrepreneurial business growth. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

And businesses of all varieties — old and new, industrial and digital, big and small — are getting into the game. Masses of social, weather, and government data are being leveraged to predict supply chain outages. But the reality is that our relentless focus on the importance of big data is often misleading.

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Retail Supply Chain Price Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Same business model architecture, two entirely different responses: obvious or unachievable. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Since reading that I've often pondered the subject and today, I find it helpful to look at my experience of how good designers think (and do) at each stage of the innovation process: insights, inspiration, and action. Good designers can act as a translator between functional silos as different as supply chain, marketing and R&D.

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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. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

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