Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Is the marketplace is a profitable business idea in 2020?

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Ad fraud poses a risk to the ad tech industry compromising the technology industry as a whole. The digital markets enable ad fraud to thrive due to the nature of programmatic advertising marketplace as an open market environment with innovations that enable fraudsters to thrive. Why is Ad Fraud Difficult to Curb?

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Supply Chain Advertising Metrics Competitive Advantage 51

Strategy Driven

JULY 12, 2017

Using a combination of marketing, sales, and operations, that can be easily arranged. First up, you’re going to want to work on a proper marketing strategy for your product. Before you start with any kind of activity at all, you need to make sure that you decide on the right marketing strategy for your product. Supply Chain.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Brand 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

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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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 13, 2019

A few years ago a Swedish team developed a robot, called ROAR (or robot-based autonomous refuse handling), which was capable of working alongside the refuse truck, collecting bins from the street, delivering them to the vehicle and then dumping the contents inside.

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Objective Supply Chain Video Technology 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” These programs are essentially an online form of direct marketing. This is a wasted opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” These programs are essentially an online form of direct marketing. This is a wasted opportunity.

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Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it.

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Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 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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Marketing Advertising Technology Content 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Is blockchain appropriate? Good for Business, Good for Society.

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Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Catch up here. CMI members always see more.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Marketing has entered its “uncanny valley” moment. Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination. Sales & Marketing. And that’s off-putting. It’s worth trying to get right.

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Marketing Content Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Online grocery delivery requires dealing with irregularly shaped products with many different form factors, multiple storage temperature regimens, short shelf lives, and food technology constraints about what can be packed with what.

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Retail Supply Chain Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

It began life as a social networking services company, and then added gaming, electronic payments, media content, cloud computing and devices. They gain invaluable data that fuels everything from hyper-targeted marketing to store locations to product assortment to pricing. Costco, the U.S.-based

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Retail Marketing Supply Chain Licensing 8

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 7, 2014

The supply chain for German cars is significantly more globalized than it was a decade and a half ago. That trend is visible in the context of German car manufacturing: Globalization, and the resulting fragmentation of supply chains, hasn’t just shifted the geography of production. Global business Supply chain'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. At the same time, customers receive recommendations, deals and educational content to keep them excited about their purchases.

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Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Why are supply chains structured this way with tiers of component makers who assemble progressively larger pieces? A big reason is technological complexity. The supply chain looks like a web with many tiers, and each major sub-component has its own web. Raising barriers will mostly lead to more complexity for U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

The tech media is leaping on every bit of information that can be inferred from the Apple supply chain about the potential specs of the phone (for the record we are expecting Apple to introduce a big screen brother to the current phone and produce it in record numbers ).

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Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

A few weeks ago, my friend and former Harvard Business School classmate James Allworth argued that "Big Content" is stifling technological innovation. Works of art are a supply, a COGS , a tool in the machine of a technology company or a tech solution. Patents vs. copyright. Tech media bias. Psychological rationalization.

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Supply Chain Content Technology Innovation 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Effective execution became harder and harder, creating a vicious cycle of falling behind in the market, losing money, cancelling projects and shedding staff, all of which further damaged its ability to execute.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Westend61/Getty Images.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Editorial driven approaches at MIT Technology Review and Fast Company can trip over hype (recall how Fast Company in 2009 named “Team Obama” its most innovative company ?).

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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.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Productivity Products Decentralization Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Supply chains can become more anticipatory and effective. For most organizations, identifying which processes deserve or need to become platforms – hiring, training, fundraising, marketing, innovation, software development – becomes strategically paramount.

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Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 11