Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

In the last half-century, the pace of change and the many innovations that have reorganized our behavior in no way compare with the unanticipated situation we now face from the coronavirus pandemic. We simply have no precedent for how to plan for what may come next, or for managing the pace of the upheaval.

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Crisis Open-book Fixed Costs Social Capital 66

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. Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. I really enjoyed this book.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl? But Messieurs Barnes and Heini, joint managing directors of Aldi UK, have added more fresh products and up-market lines at prices 15-20% below those of regular UK supermarkets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets.

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Short-term Budgeting Health Care Long-term 12