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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. Nokia during 2007-2010 was an example of a corporation with great innovation capacity. Apple kept 30% of the sales made by outside developers.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

Key Processes are the operational and managerial capabilities that allow a company to deliver value in a way that can be repeated and scaled. These include manufacturing, budgeting, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. 2: Shed the Layers (vertical health).

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Meetic, the French dating site, offers a case study in the difficulties of managing across digital borders. And the amounts involved are huge.

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