Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. The pandemic makes those technologies more relevant now than ever. These technologies are: Artificial intelligence (AI).

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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.”. For instance, the most successful companies were able to move more decisively when both exploring and exploiting new opportunities.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

Risk management helps them stay on top of the market challenges and trends in the relevant industry. However, markets and industries are dynamic concepts. More Precise Risk Models. Predominantly relying on the human workforce makes risk models way too complicated. Meanwhile, supply chains have become more complex.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". 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. But even with its ability to sustain lower prices, the new model had little support.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

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. Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. The Marketing Impact of Near-Zero Transaction Costs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. But in some companies, strategists are bolder.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

If you want your business to grow sustainably at scale, you need to figure out how to make big investments that will best differentiate you in your core. We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets.

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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. What say you?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. Despite the inevitability of this “smart” future, today only a small portion of businesses regularly merge data and physical products. And today, the nearly two billion user profiles it captured serve as the backbone for one of the largest advertising businesses ever created.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Shortly after, BMW and Nissan announced that they wanted to cooperate with Tesla on technology and standards. Between them, these three carmakers own almost all the market for electric vehicles and as such are natural competitors. Giving up the patent portfolio is a similar move that challenges the traditional business model.

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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 the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. One of the more popular business mantras to hit town recently has been: “Forget products, think platform!” So online grocery is hard, and doing it profitably demands extraordinary levels of efficiency powered by the creative application of technology and automation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

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Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

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). (The imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. In the U.S.,

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

As more companies struggle to find their niche with the modern consumer, they’re turning to new technologies to recreate this sensory experience. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

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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

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. And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). For example, Health Technology had an average multiple of 5.1,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations. Organizational leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

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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. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit. Growing Digital Business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. Now we have global nomads building new businesses straight from their phones. .” The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

In principle, it doesn’t really matter if you do this through old-school leaflet drops or ecommerce marketing. It’s the literal meaning which tends to catch out businesses. Your supply chain plays a huge role in your success. Agility is still a highly desirable trait in many, if not all, businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For example, deregulation killed off icons in the airline business such as Pan Am and TWA. Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. Smartphones destroyed Nokia’s cell phone business. And, yes indeed, such models will demand a set of capabilities now alien to most care providers.

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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. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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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

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.

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