Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Unlike other clean energy sources, nuclear power is available during all weather conditions, offers price stability, and on-site long-term fuel supplies. The result is an initial set of organizational, process, and technology changes that preserve operational safety and reliability while at the same time dramatically reduce costs.”.

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Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. The move to low-cost manufacturing in the 1990s was driven in part by cheap oil prices. However, the price of oil then tripled in the last decade. Labor costs. Automation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A defining challenge for the 21st century will be providing sufficient supplies of sustainable energy to meet surging energy demands. A revolution in energy technologies is needed to ensure that the global energy supply chain meets demands while also solving the challenges of climate change.

Energy 8

Energy Policies Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". While the value chain will optimize for specific circumstances, often technologies are created that eliminate the need for certain pieces of an industry's value chain. But even with its ability to sustain lower prices, the new model had little support.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

One option, of course, is to drive up the stock price by buying back shares, and some CEOs may choose that course. For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. Investing in true innovation. Investing in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Grocers are watching customers make fewer trips to stores, and many chains are in a prolonged price war, with prices declining 1.3% Another way to survive is to raise the price dramatically by going super-premium or by becoming very focused in local markets. This FDA-approved technology creates multiple benefits.

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Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions.

Retail 108

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 108

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

As more companies struggle to find their niche with the modern consumer, they’re turning to new technologies to recreate this sensory experience. To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. Most hearing aids in the U.S. are now custom-made on 3D printers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

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Innovation Supply Chain Software Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

The world's most innovative company brought in $46 billion in revenues, $13 billion in profit, and an eye-popping $17.5 But last week the New York Times also hit us with two powerful articles about Apple's supply chain that revealed some deeply troubling issues for the company's business model. billion in cash flow.

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Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Accountability is often the unhappy byproduct rather than desirable outcome of innovative analytics. At one global technology services firm, salespeople grew furious with a CRM system whose new analytics effectively held them accountable for pricing and promotion practices they thought undermined their key account relationships.

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Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Looked at in this light, the terrible delay in finding Flight 370 can be seen as a failure of management practice to keep up with new technology. My take on this lapse is that there’s a gap between the power of IoT technology, and management’s ability to conceive strategies to capitalize on it, which I refer to as “IoT Thinking.”

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Even oil giants from Europe (including BP, Eni, Shell, Statoil, Total) advocated for a price on carbon. A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 11

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

As in other developing countries, telephone service and banking were regarded in Kenya as products for the rich, but the emergence of mobile phones and online banking, and the innovative idea of combining them, has brought these services to the Kenyan masses at ultra-low prices. But their winning formula is not a secret.

Marketing 8

Marketing Supply Chain Banking Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. Westend61/Getty Images.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. Work with suppliers on systemic reductions across the value chain and set big goals for them as well. Companies must lobby for escalating prices on carbon everywhere.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In many cases, these volatile big bets create bigger movements, up and down, in the stock price of a company than its (more stable) core business. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. To date, few companies have mastered this skill.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. Blockchain technology allows for near-zero transaction costs—even on microtransactions.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

So WalMart’s gargantuan core competencies of buying power, supply chain management and logistical superiority guarantee the “everyday low prices” its customers crave and demand. FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. Customers Innovation Strategy'

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8