Qmarkets

JULY 28, 2017

What is then usually prescribed as recipe for other companies finding themselves in Kodak's shoes is the strategy of ambidexterity : Managing and exploiting the present while, at the same time, exploring and creating the future. Clark Gilbert and Joseph Bower from Harvard Business School explain how this narrative can influence strategy.

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PlanBox Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the annals of technological evolution, we find ourselves at a juncture akin to the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey. As we peer into the abyss of AI’s limitless potential, we must equip ourselves not only with agility but with structured methodologies, visionary strategies, and a commitment to professional standards.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 28, 2020

Innovation is essential as a strategy for risk management, but it’s more than that. 1 spot in digital camera sales as recently as 2001. Kodak’s competition was not just other camera and printer companies, but entirely new innovations like social media. They actually held the No.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2001, Apple introduced an array of products and services beyond hardware and software. Every business needs a strategy to respond to the changing world. This means that you can alter parts of the business model and make conscious changes to create a competitive advantage. That’s business model innovation for you.

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 22, 2018

In Innovation Leaders recent Master Class, “Innovation by the Numbers,” we explored how innovation metrics and analytics could be used to move company strategies forward. However, there is one competitive advantage that can guide leading organizations through a market characterized by volatility, uncertainty, change and ambiguity.

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Idea Drop

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Over time they build a foothold in the market and through a process of continuous improvement and innovation , break into the competitive market that they were previously not involved with. The new move nudged them into the same competitive space as Blockbuster, eventually pushing them out of the market.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2001, Apple introduced an array of products and services beyond hardware and software. Every business needs a strategy to respond to the changing world. This means that you can alter parts of the business model and make conscious changes to create a competitive advantage. That’s business model innovation for you.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn . mgriffin_uk . +44

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CREATORS

JUNE 19, 2017

Today’s competitive market has made it both trendy?—?and a strategy known as “spray and pray” in the venture capital world, which has been adopted by a myriad of companies. Most corporations using the “spray and pray” method have disorganized innovation strategies. and necessary?—?for It cannibalized its own core business.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 4, 2019

They compare themselves against the competition to see what differentiates their value proposition, going far beyond traditional customer satisfaction surveys and evaluations. At the other end of the spectrum, we’ve also looked at companies that ignore their DNA and pursue market strategies unrelated to their strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. How do I know that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." But this strategy comes at a price. Why on earth would they want to undermine their own most significant competitive advantages?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." By early 2011, CEO Reed Hastings had concluded that maintaining the company's existing product and pricing options wasn't a viable long-term strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

It took Jobs years to come up with a turnaround strategy that showed what Apple could do. People forget the years between 1996-2001 where much of the market called him more insane, than insanely great. He was competitive, sure, but mostly against himself. And that, too, is a lesson for us.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

firms themselves have been forced to move jobs abroad to survive the low-cost competition. After the 2001 recession, the rate of growth was lower than before the recession. From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.” The more your competitive advantage depended on maintaining that trade-off between richness and reach, the more vulnerable it would be.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Of course, the National Bureau of Economic Research classified two (2001 and 2008) of those 10 years as recession years. We found that family businesses handily outperformed non-family companies during both the 2001 and 2008 recessions in terms of a key metric, Tobin’s q.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. In this society, a company's competitive advantage will come from an historically underdeveloped asset: the ability to capture and apply insights from diverse fields.". It's a compelling argument.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded. Strategy Competition Innovation' As the dynamic Map also makes clear, Apple is not only about blue oceans; nor should any company’s corporate portfolio be.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Since 2001, English has been the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers, and airlines across the world have invested in English training programs for pilots, flight attendants, and other customer-facing staff. In the aviation industry, miscommunication can be fatal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

That was in keeping with the Corporations Act of 2001. Discussed here are topics much more germane to the company’s future than last year’s financials — business strategies, risks, and likely prospects. Much better, but the reporting still has a way to go. The number of franchisees fell this year from 696 to 677.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas. The word was suggested by one attendee who had been reading the book Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

airlines have turned into fortresses against continuing customer complaints and competitive forces have failed to bring about innovation and improvements. As an economist, I'd like to imagine that competition is the key factor, but the Australian experience doesn't help that case. Prices were high but so was quality.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

This is surprisingly old — such levels were reached in Japan from 1999–2003 and in Germany from 2001–2004. An aging society needs a strategy to foster inventive activity to secure its standard of living. Japan adopted its Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology, and Innovation in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Once investors stopped giving it free money, the company quickly cut back on its investments and its losses. The biggest holder, by far, is Bezos himself.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

To accommodate these new market dynamics, executives are adopting a dual strategy of “going deep” in the BRICs while simultaneously and aggressively pursuing the next frontiers. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

No strategy is static. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. As Rita Gunther McGrath describes in her compelling book The End of Competitive Advantage , in the 1980s Fuji was a distant second in the film business to Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

However, recent local and regional experiments — many funded by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions , a nonprofit alliance of state and local policy makers, businesses, labor groups, researchers, foundations, and other stakeholders — suggest that sector-based strategies can succeed in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. The current economic expansion is long by historical standards, and thus the risk of recession rises with each passing month. Algorithmic pricing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. For example, in the mobile phone industry, Motorola's margins started to sag around 1994, Nokia's in 2001, and Research in Motion's in 2009. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. In a year when forecasters were predicting a decline of 20% to 30% in hotel occupancy, that was a big competitive disadvantage. What about long-term strategy? Question: Which promotional strategy should Fernando pursue?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

For example, Terry Semel, who succeeded Tim Koogle as CEO of Yahoo in 2001, had a media marketing background at Warner Brothers. But these products still needed rapid further development and integration to be competitive. Most often, what led to their success was a strategy of growing the number of stores in an existing fashion chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Faced with increased price competition from retailers like Walmart as well as online retailers like Amazon, last decade Best Buy began with a comprehensive segmentation of its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But how did it hit on this winning strategy? IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools. The company also has a unique manufacturing strategy and business model. Quite the contrary.

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