Nike’s Category Offense on the Offensive
Nike has found its fast. How category offense has brought Nike up to speed and past the competition.
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GS Elevator – From Point A to B with Many Stops
Introduction Goldman Sachs is a public investment bank with a market capitalization of ~$78bn that has ~ 34,000 employees around the world. The company’s core business is focused on providing clients with advice on their capital markets and strategic decisions. […]
Inditex and Zara: Delivering fast (and more profitable) fashion
Through its flagship brand Zara, Inditex has revolutionized fashion retailing through its promise to design, produce, and deliver cutting-edge apparel in under 3 weeks. Read on to find out how Zara successfully delivers to over 2000 stores in 88 countries every week, and why they continue to grow by 8% after decades of operation.
Healthcare software forecast: partly cloudy with a chance of innovation.
Can athenahealth’s cloud healthcare products overcome traditional installed solutions from established providers?
Strategy&: Delivering Strategy through Execution
The story behind the acquisition of Booz & Company
Spirit Airlines: Ultra-Low-Cost, Ultra-Impressive-Profits
Spirit Airlines has accomplished the seemingly impossible in the US airline industry: it has never lost money. It does so by keeping its business model, customer promise, and operating model simple and tightly aligned. It offers the lowest fares by being the lowest cost operator and has captured a segment of the market that is unprofitable for most of its competitors to serve.
Bombardier’s Rough Landing: Falling from the Blue Blue Sky
Bombardier's aim for the stars foiled by its inability to set up equally ambitious operating standards
Penguin-Random House, A Publisher Failing to Adapt to the Digital Age
Penguin-Random House, the publisher of authors as varied as John Grisham, Mindy Kaling and Gloria Steinem, is failing to adapt to the new digital age
Yakult: Success with “Yakult Ladies”
Yakult has built unique operating model with female salesforce called “Yakult Ladies”. Its operating model is effective from wealthy neighborhood in developed countries to slum in developing countries.
Uber: A Winning Strategy
Uber effectively aligns its business model with innovative operating practices to maximize profits and optimize the experience of both the driver and the passenger.