JD.com: Building a Chinese E-Commerce Leader
How did China’s #1 direct-sales e-commerce company and e-commerce challenger achieve its leading position? By aligning its business model with its operating model, of course!
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MyEyeDr: Bringing Together Eye Care and Eyewear
How an optometry chain branded on care may be the best retailer in the category
Costco: Saving you Money
This discount retail giant outperforms competitors through cost-cutting and operational efficiency.
The Citizenry: Beautifully Crafted Home Goods for Globally-Conscious Consumers
How a sustainable, pro-social, supply chain can create a highly effective e-commerce business delivering globally-sourced, unique, high-quality products direct to consumers’ doors.
Moleskine: the “de-commoditization” of the notebook
How to create a unique market place through innovation
Action: The incredibly complex endeavor of a simple store
Action – a discount store that sells everything from food and clothes to paint supplies and decorative glow-in-the-dark ducks – is the darling of the European market. It’s secret? One-off batches. A purposefully disorganized store. And 7 people in procurement.
Vipshop: Bringing discounted retail e-commerce to China
Vipshop brings the discount retail model to china through an e-commerce platform.
REVOLVE: Mass Market Need Not Apply
Revolve has become the trendiest and most profitable e-commerce startup in the recent past – all by excluding the majority of the market and keeping laser focused on solving for early fashion adopters
Bonobos: Making Fit Happen
Between 2010 and 2015, men’s clothing was the fastest growing e-commerce category, outpacing electronics, groceries, cosmetics, and health products [1]. Founded in 2007 to eliminate “khaki diaper butt”, Bonobos [2] has been at the forefront of the shift to the […]
OMyBag: An (un)sustainable business model to support a sustainable brand’s expansion?
Designed in Amsterdam and handmade in India OmyBag is not your ordinary bag. This eco-friendly bag brand with a social mission, has successfully expanded its sales to 21 different countries across 121 different cities since its inception in 2010. The company's operating model has successfully supported growth during the first five years of the business' existence, but is it the right model to support continued sustainable development of the business going forward?