Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Disintermediation is inevitable.". In the language of strategy, the "value proposition" is "renewed.". So libraries are struggling. What can they do in the face of skeptics who say, "Print! Why, in God's name, do we need print? Let the library go the way of the bookstore. Perhaps the answer lies in the library's physicality.

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Library Innovation Disintermediation Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Even in this digital age, argues Hugo Dixon in his Reuters column , rebellions still need strategy, and to get a strategy, you must have leaders. What Happened to Disintermediation? From Occupy to Syria to Egypt, media attention and even, in Egypt's case, regime change, has not resulted in activists' desired goals.

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Disintermediation Organization Hotels Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No great strategy was born without careful thought. That’s why the process of planning a strategy itself is an important vehicle for setting priorities, making investment decisions, and laying out growth plans. A few that we’ve heard include: “ What are the top 2 or 3 things that must go right for this strategy to work?” “If

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Strategic Planning Planning Tips Disintermediation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Tesla has challenged the automotive business model on other occasions: it disintermediated car dealerships and then adopted a switching station model. Strategy' So what motivates this recent cooperation: is it just good PR, is it plain altruism, or is there something more calculated?

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Supply Chain Disintermediation Cooper Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Understand and communicate, in the C-Suite as well as with the reps, the crucial role played by the sales force in strategy implementation. The issue facing most sales forces is not disintermediation. Ultimately, companies don''t execute strategy; people do. Two steps are foundational. In 2012, according to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

While the strategies are different, the goal is the same — to generate awareness and engagement. If you want to get ahead, and stay ahead, you need to rethink your owned media strategy. Social media is an owned media strategy for the social networks themselves, but not for you. Think content, community, and context.

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Media B2B Disintermediation Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Naturally companies are unlikely to follow strategies that appear to destroy profitable revenue streams or promise to lose them money. That allows cab drivers to offer many of the conveniences of Uber without being disintermediated. This is at least one reason why Netflix ended up crushing Blockbuster.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Many of these dinosaurs – agencies in particular — seemed a bit panicked about being disintermediated. Strategies to Attract Superpower Marketing Talent. They are realizing that the open marketing systems gives brands the ability to do what agencies did themselves by creating their own marketing content and media channels.

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Marketing Disintermediation Hotels Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Yet, more so than traditional travel providers, these companies face possible disintermediation by smart speakers, which will be capable of aggregating potential travel options on command.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. So they help their companies with product development, marketing strategy, and customer service by serving as the Voice of the Customer internally. Great brands avoid selling products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

How do agencies ensure their future by being able to help brands sell more and build stronger loyalty in such a disrupted and disintermediated world, where every individual is consuming so much media from so many different channels? Marketing agencies of the future will need to focus on many of the strategies that the lean movement engenders.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a recent article with AT&T’s chief strategy officer and group president, John Donovan, she describes how AT&T is in a sprint to reinvent itself as its industry moves from cables to the cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. The Curious Incident of Brand Disintermediation. Beyond Chatbots.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Using software, like the apps on new “smart” TVs, or hardware, like Roku or Chromecast devices, any consumer with a strong Internet connection can now bypass the disintermediated MSO. Strategies for staying ahead. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. Insight Center.

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. In their buying streams, they expect the rep to orchestrate those interactions purposefully, and efficient coordination of these interaction points must be reflected in an effective 21 st -century go-to-market strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.” Barksdale: Well, because it’s an effective growth strategy. Barksdale: Well, most companies when they’re building strategies don’t ever use the term bundling. Information & technology Internet Strategy'

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

A virtuous cycle is baked into their strategy: use these resources to achieve scale in ways that help achieve even more scale. Amazon's widget that makes it easy to shop from inside Facebook reveals one way this oligopoly will become increasingly interconnected, while disintermediating as many others as it can.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

His new book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants is a compelling book for leaders thinking about strategy and positioning their companies for what’s next. Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050.

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