Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Following in the formulaic footsteps of its big-budget predecessors, like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise , Disney surmised that the action-packed, special-effects-bedazzled Carter would kill at the box office. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

Film 16

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Following in the formulaic footsteps of its big-budget predecessors, like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise , Disney surmised that the action-packed, special-effects-bedazzled Carter would kill at the box office. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

Film 16

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. Stephen Swintek/Getty Images. The marketing industry will be no exception. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

Marketing 8

Marketing Policies Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

SHE has created a franchise model — providing business skill training, technical expertise, and co-investment — to partner with women in Rwanda and other developing-country communities to distribute and ultimately manufacture and launch their own SHE LaunchPads franchises. Emotion Creates a Common Language.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One technology company targeted a 50:50 pay mix for salespeople in new customer acquisition (CA) roles, but a 70:30 mix for salespeople in account management (AM) roles. Franchise sales have nothing to do with salespeople. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles. Free sales come in two forms.

Motivation 8

Motivation Incentives Franchising Short-term 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

With today's technology and the affordability of websites, anyone can start a business from home. If you go the non-medical route, you need to decide if you want to be part of a home care franchise or go independent. Home Based Clothing Business Home based clothing businesses come in two forms: DIYers and those working for a franchise.

Tips 95

Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

So you can read about companies that succeed in having technology systems that support continual improvement or go to conferences and learn, or interact with them online, or even go visit them. What those companies will tell others about what they do will almost never cover most of what is critical.

Examples 28

Examples Deming Software System 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses. As the U.S.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

.” But ‘family-owned’ definitely doesn’t mean ‘small’; in Texas, for example (the stage for another battle involving Tesla), a prominent political contributor is a billionaire who “ owns the world’s second-largest Toyota franchise and operates in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.”

Franchising 8

Franchising PR Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? What other well-established companies, in the technology industry or elsewhere, need to follow this recipe or have found their own?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Professional sports franchises that have deteriorated have begun their comeback with better player training facilities and new or improved stadiums. A public school district went from last in its state to a leader in technology and student performance by first asking teachers for their wish lists.

Airlines 15

Airlines Franchising Audience Brainstorming 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Sales professionals and organizations are responding with new strategies and technologies that allow them to deliver personalized experiences at scale. And once contact is made, the best sellers use technology to gauge whether the information they’re sharing with a buyer hits the mark.

B2B 8

B2B CRM Franchising Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? What other well-established companies, in the technology industry or elsewhere, need to follow this recipe or have found their own?

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise. ” With the iMac and iBook, Steve Jobs reinvigorated the core Macintosh franchise by injecting a new sense of design and rethinking what computers would be used for in the age of the internet.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. Information & technology Managing people Talent management' How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts?

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It has the potential to, as no technology before, bridge the gap between virtual and real. Consumers could either tap with an NFC-enabled device or snap a QR code — up to now the main technology for linking mobile devices to physical displays. In other uses, Activision has utilized NFC technology in its Skylanders video game.

Download 8

Download Loyalty Objective Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Once wholly in the hands of managers (the "visible hands" chronicled by industrial age historian Alfred Chandler), technology innovation used to begin with a company's commitment of resources to R&D and patent protection. After all, if you want to enter every room of the house, what better vehicle than a Roomba?

Franchising 14

Franchising Reference Innovation Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

While drawing such a map today would require more boxes and more arrows, (and perhaps an independent web of interconnected assets surrounding the ESPN franchise), the fundamental patterns and the underlying insight and intuition would remain quite consistent.

Film 10

Film Franchising Industry Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

P&G was able to combine Mach blade technology with its women’s skin care expertise to market women’s shaving products under the Gillette Venus brand. Gillette introduced new shave lotions, deodorants, and shower gels for men using P&G’s soap, lotion, and antiperspirant technology and expertise.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

I fundamentally believe that a machine can tackle and succeed at freeing insight from data to provide the last mile in making big data useful, and this belief was the driver in building out a technology platform that makes it real. Information & technology Technology' Because the value of big data isn''t the data.

Comparison 8

Comparison Analysis Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Professional sports franchises that have deteriorated have begun their comeback with better player training facilities and new or improved stadiums. A public school district went from last in its state to a leader in technology and student performance by first asking teachers for their wish lists.

Airlines 8

Airlines Franchising Audience Brainstorming 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part.

Media 368

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. Instead of thinking about technology for technology’s sake, we studied the real consumer pain points in the market.

Execution 8

Execution Software Banking Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

While it was successful in getting into a market after others had proven its size and viability many times before, in this case Microsoft has not been able to replicate that, primarily because its previous successes revolved around leveraging the desktop-based Windows franchise. Competition Innovation Technology'

Innovation 8

Innovation Franchising Maturity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Now, operatives can steal intellectual property and business intelligence, and possibly classified data, by disabling encryption, breaching firewalls, and employing the latest networking technologies without their target’s knowledge and with little risk of exposure. What can you do to protect yourself and your business secrets?

Travel 8

Travel Hotels Business Intelligence Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Try getting that out of the endless string of superhero films or "franchise reboots" that slouch out of Tinseltown these days. The paradigm is shifting in favor of new technology and new ways of relating. Which brings me to business conferences, oddly enough.

Conference 8

Conference Film Franchising Budgeting 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process. Technology has dramatically changed our expectation of what fast, convenient and “broad selection” means.

Competitive Advantage 80

Competitive Advantage Short-term Policies Open-book 80

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Or how Larry Page and Sergey Brin stretched beyond search, expanding into productivity software, operating systems, hardware, self-driving cars, advanced robotics, and even life-extension technologies. Their answer was Curves—a women-only club which is now the world’s largest fitness franchise chain.

Innovation 120

Innovation Business Model Trends Franchising 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

To this end, Merck for Mothers is funding programs that help teach these small businesses franchise design, accreditation strategies, performance-based incentives, and supply-chain management to help address the persistent problem of inventory stock-outs, for example. Measure and evaluate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

These policy issues can be beneficial to the corporation and be part of an affirmative agenda, or they can be harmful to business and be part of a defensive agenda.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In McDonald's, he saw that throughout the world McDonald's franchises had similar quality meals for low prices. "If At a time when India was far from being the hotbed for technology outsourcing that it is today, Aravind started manufacturing these IOLs at world-class quality, driving the global price down from $150 to $10.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging. Johnson & Johnson’s worldwide franchise managers, for instance, may have to get country managers, whom they do not directly supervise, to commit to a strategic marketing or purchasing plan.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The limited access to broadcast technology (among the targeted 33% underserved target population) has spurred the Galli Galli Sim Sim team to learn from the market, improving and evolving content to maximize distribution. Embracing New And Multiple Means Of Distribution.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13