Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. The global business environment is decomposing into smaller yet more profitable markets, so businesses can no longer rely on scaling up to compete, but must instead embrace a new economies of unscale. That has now changed.

Niche Marketing 18

Niche Marketing Parcell Business Model Education 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

Company 15

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

Innovation 12

Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But they are constantly scanning the horizon for big enough market insights ; for that next game-changing idea; for the trend that will upset current market conditions and create opportunity. They ask themselves big, searching questions like: "What new trends and technologies could possibly undercut our current business?" "Are

Parcell 15

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. Your book argues that they're wrong. Why's that?

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Incentives Parcell 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. He wanted to sell his company’s organizational assessment and leadership development services to “George,” a CEO who had taken the reins of a technology firm poised for a great deal of change. ” But that notion is outdated.

Skills 22

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Six Sigma 12

Six Sigma Long-term Supply Chain Definition 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." When faced with a major investment decision, how many organizations would bet their success on a gut feeling? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.

Metrics 15

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Accordingly, it consists of a collection of broadly defined markets (“where to play”) and strategies (“how to win”), rather than a group of more fully defined businesses. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Growing up, he’d constantly tailed Grant around the fields, watching him experiment with crops and technologies that would help the farm survive dry spells. A 25-year lease to put solar panels on a parcel of land would generate the same returns as growing tomatoes—without any irrigation headaches. But not water.

Case Study 8

Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8