Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large corporations will admit to struggling with innovation. But in reality most companies, particularly those that manage to last for any reasonable period of time, do day-to-day innovation extremely well. But that''s exactly the job Amazon realized so many of them needed when it developed its "elastic cloud-computing solution."

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Costs Trends Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

And it could even be thought of as fitting; iTunes accomplished the exact same thing during its early-2000s attack on the bricks-and-mortar retail music industry. Apple set the stage to decimate Tower Records and Sam Goody before either had a clue their industry was about to revolt. It's business model innovation.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl?

Retail 12

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. This removed the biggest bottleneck to innovation — us. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words.

Budgeting 9

Budgeting Software Entrepreneur Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For example, hospital systems’ ability to receive premium prices for higher quality and more consistent care in a market is now being limited by greater consumer and employer price sensitivity, increased scrutiny on industry profits, and regulatory concerns about hospital mergers. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 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.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8