Financial crisis, adverse supply shock, technological disruption, or natural hazards and disasters significantly affect global businesses. Recessions caused by these global incidents and problems have serious outcomes on commodity prices, stock markets, economies, and even countries. A Downturn can be described as a contracted business cycle with a significant decline in economic activity across markets […]
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A Robust Approach to Downturn Management and Transformation
4 Key Ingredients of Transforming Your Organization From A Product-based Business To Platform Business Model
Transformation from a product-based model to a platform model is a dream for many executives. More and more product companies are now shifting into a platform model. The drive behind such a shift is the huge success of platform companies—e.g., Amazon, Google, and Apple. These organizations started out as a retailer, search engine, and iPod […]
The Secret to Unlocking Business Model Innovation (BMI)
Innovative technologies are sweeping away everything: organizations, work practices, offerings, hierarchies, and even business models. Those days are long past when business models used to stay static for years to no end. They are now under threat more so than anything else, since any technology-driven entrant can knock an established business model down in no […]
The 21st Century Small Business
Here at Forward View, we spend a lot of time asking ourselves, “What’s next?” and “How can small businesses succeed in the coming months and years?” We use these thought exercises to develop The Forward View, and these insights impact all of our consulting projects and research reports. Our efforts to peer into the crystal […]