Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2020

In the last half-century, the pace of change and the many innovations that have reorganized our behavior in no way compare with the unanticipated situation we now face from the coronavirus pandemic. This is a time to share the challenges regarding fixed costs, debt, obligations and the cost of doing business.

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Crisis Open-book Fixed Costs Social Capital 66

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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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?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl? Hard discounters aim for twice the volume with the same fixed costs so they can make the same returns at half the gross margin. The answer is simple – selling more.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Meanwhile, declines in revenue and escalating fixed costs for things like public employee pensions and health care are crippling our cities budgets.

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