Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. FedEx offered overnight delivery services in the 1970s, letting anyone ship a product anywhere, fast, at a modest cost. Innovation Technology' But the tide is about to turn. Unscaling has emerged over decades.

Parcell 15

Parcell Niche Marketing Business Model Education 15

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 16, 2008

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing. Simply brilliant.

Licensing 29

Licensing Parcell Newsletter Business Model 29

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

"It costs ten times as much to complete a unit of simple work when the data are flawed in any way as it does when they're perfect.". Given the growing importance of data to every aspect of their business, they know they must develop an understanding of the costs of poor data quality, shortcomings in the methodology notwithstanding.

Quality 14

Quality Parcell Cost Deming 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. Rising demand will lead young people to enter the field and the ensuing investment in new skills and human capital will lower the cost of future adaptation efforts. What will this adaptation look like? I trust the invisible hand.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. And yet no provision was made to cover the cost of the inevitable failures. All of this is right, as far as it goes. Trying to make everything a winner led to two hidden traps.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." How do we put the right number of people in the right roles without reducing headcount to reduce costs? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations. A man who is. Are employees fully engaged and motivated?

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Growing up, he’d constantly tailed Grant around the fields, watching him experiment with crops and technologies that would help the farm survive dry spells. A 25-year lease to put solar panels on a parcel of land would generate the same returns as growing tomatoes—without any irrigation headaches. ” Bill jumped in.

Case Study 8

Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). More than 40% in Europe cited fear of failure as a barrier, compared to just 24.0% in Sub-Saharan Africa and 27.7%

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8