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.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Cooper 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. The hard discount format accounts for as much as 40% of the German market, and for some good reasons. and spends it in international markets.

Retail 12

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. And the fixed cost from “touchpoint-to-pilot” are immense. Top startups already have market leading solutions. But only large corporates can offer the last one.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This phenomenon has been documented in the consumer-packaged-goods , food , semiconductor-manufacturing , and other industries. During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. automobile industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

For instance, larger scale has enabled many hospital systems to lower their per-patient operating costs significantly. However, reform and other market changes are altering the scale equation for hospital systems, so some of the traditional advantages that larger scale has traditionally brought them may no longer apply.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Cost Price 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. He finds that the rise in industry concentration – the share of revenue captured by the top firms in a sector – is largely explained by the adoption of IT. But why are these companies doing so well?

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

With 3D printing, however, industrial conglomerates are about to get a new lease on life. As the technology develops, GE could revamp this and other plants into general printer farms supplying all of its manufacturing divisions. This is standard practice, after all, in the paper printing industry.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

.” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts. They also ponder whether it’s a trend that is likely to continue.

Creativity 127

Creativity Innovation Trends Decentralization 127

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Harley helped V&S launch Fan Machine by enlisting its fans to develop a new campaign. In every part of the industry, the open innovation model is changing the economics of advertising by switching significant fixed costs to variable costs and sourcing creative from more relevant and, many times, lower cost sources.

Advertising 10

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 10