Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Private label (retail-branded merchandise) has been growing for years – since Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer invented it over 100 years ago – increasing in quality and forcing down brand premiums. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl?

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Over the past year, we hosted current or former leaders from each of these retailers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and all four talked about a corporate culture of setting high expectations and creating conditions that encourage employees to innovate. For Boyan, the key is giving real power to store managers and partners.

Retail 12

Retail Merchandising Incentives COO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that people are helpless victims of powerful forces beyond their control. For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Youth violence will grow.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Knowledge is power. But what kind of power does all that knowledge buy? Greater knowledge of customers creates new potential and power to discriminate. But how should sophisticated marketers and merchandisers use them? to innovatively, cost-effectively and profitably segment/discriminate their customers and clients.

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Merchandising Media Price Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Harry Gordon Selfridge, who founded the eponymous London-based retailer, did the unthinkable when he opened his first store in 1909, taking merchandise out from behind the counters so that customers could actually touch it. I want merchandise that people will desire. Innovation Leadership Retail'

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Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. By March 2016, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had invested in some 55 startups, generating products from power banks to air purifiers.

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

But when fathers are involved in child care, women "enjoy more wealth, power, and authority in society at large." After forcing Nardelli out in 2007, founder Bernie Marcus got the company back on the competing-by-boosting-margins-through-innovation road. This doesn''t mean that it won''t be a challenge.

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Merchandising Budgeting Restructuring PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Those employees work at two of Britain’s most-admired retailers, John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, each of which has carved out a powerful bond with customers, both of which have unveiled big innovations in terms of branding, merchandising, and e-commerce.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Just within the screwdrivers category, our clients in the hand tools business offered a wide range of products including standard screwdrivers, ratcheted ones, power models (corded and cordless) and even specialty screwdrivers that flex to reach awkward spaces. tools, consumer electronics, sports equipment, camping gear, etc.).

Tools 9

Tools Company Merchandising Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2011

This is time, effort and money merely focused on splitting the pie versus growing the pie by innovating the product for the benefit of all, especially the fans. Most consumers actually want new benefits and innovation and are willing to pay for them. The path to pie-growing strategies centers on better innovation.

Retail 14

Retail Innovation Price Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This view differs substantially from the relentless focus on efficiency that has characterized management thinking for most of the last three decades, but it is absolutely essential if companies are going to spur innovation and reignite profitable growth. Let me explain.

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Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

So WalMart’s gargantuan core competencies of buying power, supply chain management and logistical superiority guarantee the “everyday low prices” its customers crave and demand. FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. Customers Innovation Strategy'

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. That’s hard.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. IKEA just launched an AR-powered app that lets consumers visualize virtual furniture placed in their homes.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Now, to hype something means to push it heavily through marketing,media and merchandising. The best innovators know what visual artists and neuroscientists know: there is nothing more powerful than the ability of the human mind to create meaning from missing information. Customers Innovation Marketing'

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Merchandising Price Discount Tips 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Like Bag Borrow or Steal (another rental player), RTR enables time-sharing of merchandise. Consider a few emerging models: Private Sales: "Old Europe" can still surprise us.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). GDP growth a year across the period. Second is that returns for front-runners tend to be large.

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GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The company is doing pretty well: it has over 800,000 active sellers and a 15 million-person marketplace across 150 countries, and last year its gross merchandise sales reached $525 million. It's already spurred employee initiative, innovation and intrepreneurship — all in the name of making Etsy better.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Brainstorming Commitment Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that people are helpless victims of powerful forces beyond their control. For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Youth violence will grow.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It’s been several years now since this experience debuted and yet few have replicated a similar experience at this scale, despite its powerful appeal: the giver feels empowered for giving the item, and the taker feels the thrill of getting a surprise from a friend or stranger.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Merchandising Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Since then the world has fallen in love with a far edgier Target, which has expanded its offerings through collaborations with such power brands as Lilly Pulitzer, Toms, Neiman Marcus, and SoulCycle, and updated product lines that break the status quo, like its latest gender-neutral kids home brand Pillowfort.

Diversity 8

Diversity Retail Discount Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

For a powerful example of how this understanding can shape strategy, consider the electric razor industry. Braun simplified its merchandising and brand strategy. Once a brand becomes dominant in its benefit domain, it earns the right to move into a new benefit domain, often by innovation and re-positioning.

Management 15

Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

A&P remained so powerful for so long for one reason only: because the two brothers who controlled it, George L. They then filled their stores with private-label A&P products, creating the most powerful franchise in food retailing. In 1946, the U.S. and John A. Its real estate, not its business, will draw suitors.

P&L 14

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

A growing number of firms in the emerging field of location analytics are making it possible to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world. Leaders with digital chops and an understanding for how to translate digital-age innovations such as location analytics into compelling analog world experiences are now the ones to watch.

Retail 9

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Organized demonstrations of support by stakeholder groups can send a powerful signal to policymakers. In return for providing access to Tesla stores for club events and discounted merchandise, Tesla requires owner clubs to support local legislative efforts and to assist with survey groups and new software tests. Consumer clubs.

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

To understand the power of shared purpose, it's useful to look at the mission statements of leading companies. Nike : To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. *"If Dunkin Donuts :> Make and serve the freshest, most delicious coffee and donuts quickly and courteously in modern, well-merchandised stores.

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Mission Statement Sports Merchandising Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. Sounds great, right?

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. ” Read More from Microsoft.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. As the industry moved toward an emphasis on customer service and merchandising, the company fell behind, because its employees were focused more on increasing inventory turns and sales per square foot.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Now, the U.S.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Similarly, researchers at the OECD have found that markups — a measure of companies’ profits and market power — have increased more in digitally-intensive industries. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8