Week 1-Shifa Flashcards
What is the one and only valid definition of a business purpose
to create a customer
What is any business enterprise two basic functions
1.marketing
2.innovation
What are two common types of tech firms
- Digital
- Information Communications Technology (ICT)
What are the subcategories in digital tech firms
- Internet platforms: search engines, social networks, other platforms
- Digital solutions: electronic payment, other digital solutions
- e-commerce: internet retailers
- Digital content: digital media, games, info and data providers
What is digitalization?
- Increase use of digital technologies and their integration and cross fertilization in the firm’s products and - inbound and outbound marketing activities
Different types of uncommon tech firms
big data
cybersecurity
aerospace
robatics
blockchain, crypto
additive manufacturing: 3D printing
cloud
vr
IoT
Increased generation, analysis, and use of data to:
increase organizational efficieny
grow the firm
What can digital technologies impact?
- Product
- marketing and sales
- service delivery - chat bot -> ‘problem solver’, zoom
- innovation process and time to market
-markets and customers able to be served: amazon went from seattle to world
-nature of comp
-business models
What are the three levels of digitalization?
- add digital offer (Fitbit, google nest)
- shift to more digital processes and decisions (aka digital transformation) (dominos)
- compete with a digital business model (shopify)
Matzler et al 2018
What are some new companies
- transition into remote first workplace: Zoom
- Analyze and optimizing the customer journey: Ikea
- Implementing automated customer service: Jane
- Using AI driven insights to improve sales efficiency: Salesforce
- Automating employee performance management: 7 Shifts
- New business models (e.g SaaS): Maple
Sales and Marketing: Traditional offering to SaaS offering
Marketing and lead generation: Tradeshows, conferences, print, outdoor, email -> websites, webinars, social marketing, content marketing, referrals, SEO
Sales Model: Small to Mid cusotmers: high touch, partner/reseller based slaes, shorter sales cycle -> low touch, land and expand, short sales cycle
Sales Model: Enterprise Customers: high touch, direct sales force, lenghtly sales cycle -> high tough, direct sales force, lenghtly sales cycle
Sales compensation plans: traditional sales incentives and compensation plans structred towards bookinds and revenue recognition -> elaborate compensation plans, sig focus on ACV and multipliers/decelerators based on service mix, billing, contract lenght and renewal
Bonnet and Westerman, 2021
surveryed 1300 executives across 750 global firms
1. the rise of multi sided platforms and global dominance of platforms like Amazon and Google and Alibaba
2. quickly evolving digital capabilities
Results of a hub dominance? (Lansiti n Lakhani, 2017)
- hub firms compete against earchother (apple vs amazon)
- Incumbents like LG and GE are investing in eg IoT
- Incubents parterning with less established platforms to reduce power of others (eg Deutsche Telekom with Microsoft Azure rather than AWS)
- Users are ‘multi-homing’ eg use not only uber but lyft or others
- retailers support multipe payment solutions (Apple Pay, google wallet, samsung pay)
- lots more open-sourcing (eg Mozilla n Firefox)
Examples of Hub firms
Alibaba
Google
Amazon
Apple
Baidu
Meta
Microsoft
Tencent
How can digitilization provide a competitive advantage?
- can outsource functions to other firms (eg managing payments, negotiating prices, enforcing contracts)
- lots of experimentation and thus changing features (adding free shipping, product bundles, bound for extra items)
- can be profitable at a lower scale if they can cut out intermediaries
- are not that capital intensive
- don’t have big payroll