Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Macro Demand Forecasting: The “big picture” demand forecasting technique that looks ahead at broader market conditions to help plan a business’s overarching strategies. Beyond that, there are two broad categories of methods that each type of forecasting can employ. Diversify forecasting methods.

Efficiency 59

Efficiency Disaggregation B2B Uncertainty 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A Harvard Business School marketing professor named John Deighton once came up with a vivid analogy to illustrate this and show why a business should sub-segment its customer base. What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages.

Disaggregation 15

Disaggregation Levitt Analysis Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Let’s look at whether these functions are needed in the car market: Search and discovery: In the same way eBay helps turn one person’s junk into another person’s collectible or AirBnb makes your empty guest room a hotel room, intermediaries can help buyers find sellers. But the car market is no longer like this.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Disintermediation Disaggregation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

They enable the disaggregation of physical assets in space and in time, creating digital platforms that make these disaggregated components — a few days in an apartment, an hour using a Roomba, a seat in your drive from Berlin to Hamburg — amenable to pricing, matching, and exchange.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. But the past is merely a prologue.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not. They see it as the purview of two functions: marketing and service. Social can be and is more than marketing or communications-related work. But they shouldn't be.

Strategy 18

Strategy Disaggregation Reis eBook 18