Strategy Driven

MAY 17, 2019

The first step in cutting costs should begin with a complete audit of the existing expenses. You should consider ways to reduce operational expenses. Also, you can consider the shift from in-house to cloud operations to cut overheads. A lot of contractors subscribe to different software services yet don’t use most of them.

Cost 58

Cost Strategy Hammer Fixed Costs 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

It’s a simple calculation to determine how many units must be sold at a given price to cover one’s fixed costs. Assume she must incur a fixed cost of $25,500 to produce and sell a kite. What if we want to make an investment and increase the fixed costs?

Analysis 15

Analysis Fixed Costs Price Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

It’s a simple calculation to determine how many units must be sold at a given price to cover one’s fixed costs. Assume she must incur a fixed cost of $25,500 to produce and sell a kite. What if we want to make an investment and increase the fixed costs?

Analysis 8

Analysis Fixed Costs Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar. from 2012 through 2014.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. When Legalzoom decided to attack the overpriced industry of law, they used software systems to automate the provisioning of legal documents.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

By cutting the fixed costs of computing — avoiding the need to hire IT staff, servers, and hardware — even the smallest firm can satisfy large and unexpected computing needs. They painstakingly record the hardware and software used by millions of firms per year back to 1981. since the 1980s.

Technology 9

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Before, a big conglomerate like GE diversified its risks by mixing pro-cyclical and counter-cyclical businesses.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8