CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

(It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

I talked with Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and co-author of HBR’s Go To Market Tools , to better understand how to use this important calculation. To figure total costs you first multiply the unit quantity sold by the variable costs per unit, then you add the fixed costs.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period Fixed Costs Analysis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

So it''s no surprise that one of the most frequent questions senior executives ask us is how to increase the odds that their big bets on breakthroughs will pay off. And there are plenty of stories of big bets that ended up disappointing. When the company rides an enabling trend.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Costs Trends Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The key to solving this problem is to forget about regulation, charity, or public shaming and instead focus on how to help drug companies make even more money. The key components that lead to a solution are as follows: Understand the dynamics of a high fixed cost/low variable cost industry.

Discount 8

Discount Price Fixed Costs Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Now we want to supplement that advice with tips for companies on how to make workers want to stick around for decades. By making the fixed cost of payroll inherently more variable under differing business conditions, you can make your company more resilient and agile, while also treating your employees exceptionally well.

Long-term 10

Long-term Fixed Costs Commitment Agility 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

Jobs-to-be-done suggests that in order to predict how to develop, compare, and position our products, we should be driven by a fundamental understanding of what that product is hired to do. It was in your home, had no shelf space limiting its inventory, and could beat Tower on price because of its lower fixed costs.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. Tesco came to the party much later in the 1980s but ended up winning with its “good-better-best” private label lines, setting the industry standard for how to play the private label game. The answer is simple – selling more.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The need to decentralize organizations around employees — viewing them as assets capable of expanding growth rather than as fixed costs to be eliminated — and to move away from standardized and tightly-specified process flows. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Uber brought the taxi industry to its knees by figuring out how to extract new value from excess capacity in the system. On any given day in America, 40% of hospital beds lie empty, their enormous fixed costs weighing heavily on the system. Resource orchestration. Or take medical appointments.

Health Care 9

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

There is a vitally important national and state-level discussion taking place about how to address the government's frighteningly large deficits while limiting disruptions for all Americans. Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets.

Short-term 12

Short-term Budgeting Health Care Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. As one logistics company executive told us when we interviewed him: “We know how to manage people in our company.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The advantages that hospital systems can derive from scale fall into four groups: Classic economies of scale focus on lowering the cost per unit of care delivered (e.g., Economies of scope can allow hospital systems to leverage their scale to develop new revenue streams.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult. The Affordable Care Act and the emergence of accountable care organizations (ACOs) provide an opportunity to rethink not just how U.S. The Parliament would vote on an expenditure limit and the NHS had to live within that limit.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. 4) Costs – what is your cost per sale/customer? Pro-rated fixed costs. Variable costs. What are your economies of scale (how much less will produce more of your product cost). In my management 3.0 Turnover (i.e.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact. In recent years, both companies exhibited compressed margins, flat revenue growth, and lagging returns. It was clear that combining the two firms would be far more beneficial to overall shareholder value.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Management has made promises to senior executives about what a project will achieve, and fixed costs have built up because they looked prudent in comparison to planned revenues.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

That gave it a steadier cash flow to cover the costs of its large fixed cost investments, but did not eliminate the unused capacity of plants dedicated to one kind of product. Everyone will have the same machines and everyone will be down the same learning curve on how to use the machines.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8