Companies struggle to successfully reinvent biz model once, let alone twice in 5 years. Netflix’s successful shifts — from DVDs to streaming to originals — have largely been in response to to trends impacting its content supply chain.
Chipotle’s incredible focus on its operations allowed it to carve out an entirely new segment within the already very mature food industry.
FedEx was founded to meet a need that many companies and individuals believed was not being adequately met by the slow and often unreliable U.S. Postal Service. FedEx responded by creating a very complex network and infrastructure that met the demand for extremely fast, extremely reliable shipment of documents and packages. Even now after decades of operation, customers are still willing to pay a premium to ship via FedEx.
How an airline that consumers claim to hate continues to outperform competitors on profit margin and revenue growth
Domino's delivers millions of pizza bites each day by relying heavily on millions of terabytes of data.
To become the world’s most loved jewelry brand…
With the elimination of its membership fee, Jet.com sacrificed its major source of profits in exchange for gaining scale. But is this enough to achieve scale?
“An on-trend, well-positioned, high-growth retail concept at the intersection of three high growth sectors — healthy foods, weight management and restrictive diets, including food allergies.”
A radically different business and operating model in the generic pharmaceutical industry
WeWork runs a simple office space arbitrage model. How can it be valued at $10bn? Is it sustainable?
