Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. At most product companies, value capture has been as simple as setting the right price to maximize profits from discrete product sales. Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

Business Model 14

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. Consider the Norwegian technology company Piql.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Business Model Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Dramatic currency fluctuations, depressed prices on commodities such as oil and copper, and sluggish demand from China and Europe (Africa’s largest trade partners) have put pressure on the region’s economies.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2019

Market research is an essential tool in developing and differentiating brands and services But the research business is rapidly being disrupted by the encroachment of SaaS competitors, emerging methodologies, lower pricing and easier consumer access. Relevant formats to consider, include: movie trailers and documentary films.

Storytelling 51

Storytelling Marketing Audience Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. market in the first 18 months after their introduction.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1. This means that startups risk being held hostage to the greater negotiating power of incumbents, who can force down prices when the startup has fewer outside options relative to the sale.

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. It developed over 1,000 patents related to image capture that commanded billions of dollars in licensing revenues (for access to its “218” patent alone, it was paid $550 million by Samsung and $414 million by LG).

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Film ratings. As a company that thrives when people consume more content, Netflix routinely serves up personalized recommendations to customers based on their feedback on films they've already viewed. Famously, five years ago, the company launched a competition to improve on the Cinematch algorithm it had developed over many years.

Wireless 8

Wireless Film Advertising Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. The New Tools of Marketing. Consumers opt in.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? For American firms partnering with Chinese companies, access to new international markets, especially in China, is an obvious gain. Will Chinese production houses be able to close the knowledge gap and begin producing international blockbuster films of their own? In the U.S.,

Automotive 8

Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. over the last half-century, but also one of the best-performing companies in any industry. When Innovation Is Strategy. An HBR Insight Center. Strategy'

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Business development. Zanuck, film producer (1949). They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed. It may experience unprofitable pricing, poor payables-receivables policies, lack of accountability and excess overhead. Business Development. Fulton Sheen.

Strategy 62

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Business development. price verification, inventory control). Concepts which have changed names over the years… Peep show | film arcade | silent films | talkies | movies | cinema | video.

Transportation 70

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

home marketers (Fox, HBO), cable and satellite services (Comcast, DirectTV), video syndicators (PMI, TVS), film libraries and archives (Eastman House, Getty Images), and talent agencies (WME, CAA, ICM), each with its own contracts and accounting systems. Consumers can view films on their mobile devices in exchange for bitcoin.

Creativity 11

Creativity Film Decentralization Reputation 11

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Self-promotional brochures.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer. The company struggled from the start to find the right markets and customers.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?"

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. To see customers as the assets they really are, the strategic design and marketing question must shift from "What's the new value of the innovation?"

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. This requires developing creative approaches to finding new ideas from outside of healthcare. The development of Memorial’s Heart and Vascular building is another example of ideas inspired by innovisits.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product.

Ries 16

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

To survive and thrive with the conflicting demands of performance excellence and constrained resources, SFO has developed a highly structured organization. They got useful input on menu items and prices. They advertised the event on social media and on local blogs, charging a $10 “cover charge” (not ticket price).

Audience 8

Audience Brainstorming Project Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The key insight that led to the development of the Priceless campaign was in the value system of our target audience, namely people who believed they were good people buying good things for good reason, and that it was not possible to put a price on things like family and life experiences.

Belief Systems 16

Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Ed Catmull is a co-founder and the longtime head of Pixar Animation Studios, which struggled for 10 years from its founding in 1986 until the runaway success in 1995 of its first feature film, Toy Story. There was some unhappy news about one of your films in production. We have had a substantial difficulty with every film that we made.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10