CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. I really enjoyed this book.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

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.

Restructuring 10

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. Within the first year of our effort net sales increased 27 percent while fixed costs were reduced by 40 percent.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Companies can lower their fixed costs and increase those that fluctuate with the market. One way of doing that is to outsource production. Many vendors, who apportion fixed costs among different companies, charge on a per unit basis. Alternately, companies can sign short-term contracts that carry few obligations.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Fixed Costs Price Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support our traditional version of the American Dream: the highly leveraged, high-fixed-cost house; the cars; the latest consumer goods. If you had a full-time job, you won. Their wages are stagnating or declining, and their jobs are at risk of being automated.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Insurance Retail Fixed Costs 8