What do H&M, Zara, and Ikea have in common? #FastFashion. Ikea’s operations revolutionized the customer experience, paving the way for all those retail giants that we all know and love. #disruption #lowcost #highvalue
How a misaligned operating model can cause the decline and possible collapse of a 100 year old company.
Southwest Airlines continues to touch the sky in low-cost operations and superior customer service — proving the ability to sustain competitive advantages in the face of fierce industry competition by effectively aligning its operating and business models.
What do you want to do in life and how will you get there?
This is a question every person asks him- or herself at some point in their life. Unfortunately, it is far from easy to answer. The reasons for that are many, from not knowing what opportunities even exist for your skillset to not knowing people who can guide you in the right direction.
In 1995, a heretofore unknown film studio named Pixar released Toy Story, the first-ever feature length computer-animated film. Since then, Pixar has produced 15 blockbusters which have grossed more than $9.5 billion worldwide.
H&M has become one of the leading fast fashion companies using its supply chain and techonology as core competitive advantages.
Gilead Sciences is one of the top-performing companies in the biotechnology industry with an operating model that combines R&D with M&A strategies.
How did an offbeat Swedish retailer managed to conquer the market for furniture around the globe? Below that quirky surface lies an amazing success story of well-executed strategic alignment.
Amazon has been successful in developing a sophisticated, high-tech network of fulfillment centers, which they make accessible to third party sellers
Bridgewater Associates’ operating model, making investment decisions collectively following thorough and logical discussions, enables them to effectively utilize its intellectual capital to win in the capital market at higher probability than its competitors do.
