Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. The PO guides the team towards building the product or in lean business modeling parlance, continually proves or disproves the current business hypothesis.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

In later volumes, I will be zeroing in on more specific themes like Bootstrapping, Positioning, Innovation, etc. Traditional publishers take very long to get their acts together, and frankly, I don’t operate with those timelines. RS : If there was a common theme across all the interviews in Volume 1, what is it? SM : Inspiration.

Entrepreneur 28

Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. The innovation portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. Apple), the industry stack is vertically integrated.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

The question before the court is whether Aereo’s business model violates the Copyright Act. While the oral arguments in the court revealed more confusion than clarity, here are four lessons that the Aereo dispute should remind us all: It ain’t illegal just because it threatens your business model.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model Innovation Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. The real enemy of Apple is Google, whose Android operating system runs on Samsung’s phones. The answer is Google’s business model. So why has Apple not sued Google?

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Businesses sometimes need to invest in new opportunities that do not fit the current business or current strategy well. Whenever a division has a business model that is different from that of the core businesses, the risk of subtracted value is particularly high: the corporate rules of thumb are often toxic.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

were alarmed to find that most of its sales agents are not properly licensed and trained to sell group health insurance. In April’s Harvard Business Review , we offer a menu of options for concerned incumbents. So how might a hotel operator respond to the rise of Airbnb?

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. While the banks compete among themselves, they face existential threats from amalgam of entities, not necessarily possessing bank licenses. Innovate ferociously. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format. health care providers: the push for more accountable care will require new business models where risk sharing with private and government insurers becomes more the norm. Or consider U.S.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. Or, to use the legal term, you license their use. In effect, ReDigi operates a market for license transfers among iTunes users.

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Their business models benefit from internet connectivity and they enjoy tremendous network effects. It would be very hard for Amazon or Google to guarantee customer outcomes and take risks with businesses whose operations they know little about. An example would be Google in search, or Facebook in social networking.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

has no television license tax. Even though the VCR was technically making a copy of the program without a license to do so, the Court found that copying fit into a narrow exception to the otherwise exclusive rights of the copyright holder — an exception known as a "fair use.". So what's the real innovation here?

Licensing 8

Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions. I was curious to see how Sesame Workshop had continued to grow its operations over the years while remaining true to its mission to improve the lives of kids.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, platforms are based on one of the most challenging business models there is. A smaller number of participants who actually want to do business with each other is much more important than a larger number of participants who don’t care so much. Most would-be matchmakers don’t get it right, though.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They’re important because they’re allowing businesses to develop new business models that better serve customers. Models that revolve around capturing information and putting it to work. In their simplest form, these businesses rely on the information that’s already there to provide automated intuition.

Software 8

Software Film Information Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Crushing the “Propaganda Stations” In considering radio license renewals in 1929, a certain station caught the attention of Hoover (now U.S. Second, wireless licenses were made flexible.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. Business models. In 1944, the bed strangled him. “That’s very, very important.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Maximizing economies of scale lies at the heart of McDonald’s product-centric business model. ” How Disney creates happiness is by offering a range of consumer products (Disney Store, publishing, licensing), entertainment (Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Marvel), and experiences (parks and resorts).

Organization 8

Organization Strategy Short-term Agility 8

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. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. ” Read More from Microsoft.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Typically a phone or device vendor needs to license Android and then build a product which must then be accepted by another intermediary — usually a mobile operator — before sale to the end-user. It's system software; the customer for Android is not the end-user but a system builder or integrator.

Software 15

Software Real Estate Maturity Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. Of course this depends on a company’s business model. Then, there is 50 Shades of Grey. A disaster is cloaked as a win.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. ” Vox is one example of the full-stack model.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

Strategy 9

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Hack by Valeria Budinich, Ashoka.

Organization 15

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 15