Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

The use of FinTechs allows suppliers to access funding at the multinationals firm’s lower cost of capital.). They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Over a billion cars currently are on the road worldwide and a billion mobile devices use Android software, but these converging means of transportation and communication are barely connected. Consider new software for cars.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

My conversations with executives, particularly those from western multinationals, often focus on the high cost and difficulty of doing business in India as one of the biggest disincentives for them to invest in the country. Step 2: Measure operating environment. The business and operating environment varies remarkably across states.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning. Modern Corporation Marketing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2019

This growth only makes sense as businesses continue to grow and need diesel trucks to transport their goods from place to place in our country. The mobile shop works well if you want to get your name out there but don’t have the finances for a building yet. Consider the Cost, Then Take the Plunge. Parts markup.

How To 10

How To Insurance Tools Outsourcing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The Future of Operations. A looming crisis. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The car service company just arranged low-cost financing to help add 100,000 cars to its fleet; revenues are growing by 20% monthly ; and New York Magazine proclaimed the company may be – one day – more valuable than Facebook. Uber offers three primary transportation services: SUV, Black Car, and UberX (hybrids and mid-range cars).

Price 8

Price Transportation Discount Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. 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 2, 2017

For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars. Since cloud-based systems are modular and scalable, they are fundamentally easier to manage.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. Playing development to win does have costs. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. Using this approach to build each new Medicaid team, we then armed the primary care team with the operating structure, data, and incentives needed to create engagement with our patients wherever they are, enveloping them with compassion and the latest in evidence-based care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. GDP grew by 1.9%

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

But clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. And we mean everyone — not only the inpatient and outpatient teams but even people in HR and Finance.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo. With valuable learnings from the solar salesmen, we began the search to build our own dedicated team of salespeople to help us “open up shop” across each region of operation. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 10

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. So how do you evolve an outdated business model to one that offers better revenue growth, greater profit margins, and lower cost?

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Find the Right Home for the Team.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Last week, the Tata Group , producers of the Tata Nano car , announced the launch of an ultra low-cost, flat-pack house designed for rural India. We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". dollars). Embrace both meanings of the word.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. .” Grove stared at him, numb, and then said, “Why shouldn’t you and I walk out the door, come back, and do it ourselves?” But the past is merely a prologue.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Transport on the line was so unreliable that crops in the areas it served were routinely left to rot in the fields during the harvest season. In addition, they translated the broad priorities "expand services to existing customers" and "cut costs" into clear guidelines that managers and employees understood and could act upon.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. He asked how significant the education costs would be to sign up additional farmers. or you might not.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. I haven't read the book yet, but when I do I'll share my feedback with readers. Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post. It can inspire, and illicit both emotional and intellectual response.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? Cost Savings. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. according to IHS, incurring fuel costs in the billions annually. Operational Improvements.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. The data were startling. Six Guiding Principles.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term. Digital Transformation in Government Does Not Happen Quickly. The result?

Banking 13

Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. made products.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

They all pay taxes, report their finances, disclose significant shareholders, and comply with the full range of employment, health and safety, advertising, intellectual property, consumer protection and anti-competition laws, to name just a few. Yet the services provided by technology companies are often widely available at little or no cost.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. The first is organizational myopia. million people.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance. miles per gallon by 2025.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking 8

Banking Objective Finance Proposal 8