Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

Investing in fixed assets. Investopedia defines an asset as an economically valuable resource owned, controlled, or acquired with the expectation that it will appreciate later. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period. The business rewards will be worth the sacrifice.

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Fixed Assets Insurance Outsourcing 85

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Focus on capabilities rather than just fixed assets: Fixed assets, including brands, are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses and tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. Paul Leinwand is a Partner in Booz & Company's global consumer, media, and retail practice.

Strategy 15

Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52