Mercadona: An Undisputed Winner
Satisfying ‘The Boss’, or how to become the leading supermarket chain in Spain by focusing on your clients’ needs
Submissions
Disney: Commercializing Creativity
For a long time, movie-making has been viewed as a very risky, unpredictable enterprise: you can have a blockbuster one day and a flop the next, with very little visibility to distinguish the two a priori. A number of companies […]
AmenZone – Training for Life
Why doing more with less is hurting AmenZone and its growth through franchise strategy.
VisionSpring: Providing eyeglasses to millions
703 million people need, but don't own, eyeglasses. How does a company solve a social mission at scale? By having strong business and operating models associated with it.
Build-A-Bear Workshop: Smarter Than Your Average Toy Store
While toy stores sell products and movie theatres sell entertainment, Build-A-Bear sells both through aligned business and operating models and an innovative, process-driven approach that appeals to Mama Bears, Papa Bears, Sister Bears, and Brother Bears alike.
Costco Wholesale
The most fun you've ever had shopping in a warehouse.
Vipshop: Bringing discounted retail e-commerce to China
Vipshop brings the discount retail model to china through an e-commerce platform.
Aldi: delivering what and only what the customer values
Aldi’s business model is formulated with a very specific customer in mind: someone who evaluates groceries from a utilitarian perspective. Aldi’s customer wants low prices in a quick shopping environment and is willing to make sacrifices on choice and service. To […]
CVS Health: Fully Adherent to Its Prescribed Strategy and Winning
Through compliance with its mission of “helping people on their path to better health”, CVS has created a winning alignment between its business and operating models to grow into a success story.
First Solar: sustainability through innovation and vertical integration
How First Solar, a global leader in the solar photovoltaics industry, is sustaining its competitive position with emphasis on process integration and expansion into countries with sustainable solar energy markets.