Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The executive implications for time management and, more important, people management are enormous. The awkward irony is that this radically increased access gives top management less choice — not more — about how it invests its limited attention. Disintermediating the analysis was the right and responsible choice.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As a result, managers are uncomfortable actually moving into action or committing resources, preferring to stay with the business they know rather than possibilities that may or may not pan out. To overcome this inertia, ask managers to include specific, short-term experiments, whose results will communicate what works and what does not.

Strategic Planning 12

Strategic Planning Planning Tips Disintermediation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Let’s look at whether these functions are needed in the car market: Search and discovery: In the same way eBay helps turn one person’s junk into another person’s collectible or AirBnb makes your empty guest room a hotel room, intermediaries can help buyers find sellers. But the car market is no longer like this.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Disintermediation Disaggregation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

The issue facing most sales forces is not disintermediation. The role of data is not to make a manager sound "analytical." According to Gartner Research, chief marketing officers will soon spend more on IT than CIOs, increasing the need for coordination between marketing and sales throughout the buying cycle at many firms.

Disintermediation 10

Disintermediation CRM CIO Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

But banks cannot control the rules of engagement as they have in the past, since customers now have more choices and are more fragmented, and disintermediation by fintech is making it harder to earn fees. Nothing has changed in most African banks in terms of structure, despite the avalanche of transformations in the market.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Toyota wasn't just looking for superior quality and just-in-time inventory management from suppliers, they were vested in helping suppliers become more innovative and creative. Obviously, innovation investments shouldn't make it easier for suppliers to compete with or disintermediate their customers. What should it mean?

Innovation 10

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Incubator 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

So far, the theory behind this laissez-fair regulatory approach — which many in Silicon Valley are happy to endorse — is that platform companies define new markets for which regulators were not prepared, and as such can’t be regulated in the same way as legacy companies. In contrast, in the U.S., In contrast, in the U.S.,

Hotels 8

Hotels Disintermediation Real Estate Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Marketers often distinguish between paid, earned, and owned media. Loyalty and reward programs provide this type of context for B2C companies, while strategic account and relationship management programs do the same for B2B companies. Marketing Media Social media' Owned media can be used in B2B as well.

Media 9

Media B2B Content Disintermediation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

This is important, because companies that adhere as closely as possible to the patterns of disruption have the greatest chance to create explosive growth and transform markets. Its powerful back-end system allows it to manage a real-time network of cars in an extremely simple and potentially low-cost way. Uber nails this.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Using software, like the apps on new “smart” TVs, or hardware, like Roku or Chromecast devices, any consumer with a strong Internet connection can now bypass the disintermediated MSO. Brand marketers must demand change from their own media-buying ecosystem. Connecting the dots. ” Data.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. That is, core solution-selling and account-management skills still matter. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

B2B 8

B2B AIDAS AIDA Disintermediation 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

Disintermediation 134

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 134

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity HBS Working Knowledge I''m sitting here, alone, in HBR''s library, writing about how my decision to relocate from my open workspace is making me much more productive. When managers were around, the frontline staff did everything by the book. Oz Was Right? presidency a bully pulpit.

Products 10

Products Productivity Disintermediation Library 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. But even great management cannot protect these airlines. So let''s behold them. It may even change the city.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. They contribute tremendous value to their organizations through their market insights and direct communication channel with customers. Great brands avoid selling products.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Price Long-term 8