Sentences with phrase «upending business»

The studio system is in flux, box office revenues are on a rollercoaster, Netflix and Amazon are upending business norms and sexual misconduct allegations are expected to topple more industry figures.

BoF spoke to twelve of the industry's brightest public relations gurus about the shifts upending the business of fashion PR and what they're doing to adapt.

«In most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.»

Even if it's just you selling your product through Amazon or Facebook, get ready for them to make another tiny tweak to their algorithm that completely upends your business.

It can upend the business models of companies that depend on it, or completely change the ways its individual users relate to each other — without them even realizing what has happened.

Entrepreneur Mara Fortin, who owns seven locations of the Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery chain in California, says the broadened definition of employer could upend her business model.

Still others fear that technology will upend business models.

The internet has enabled dictionaries to expand far beyond the limitations of print books — you no longer have to worry about things line breaks or page counts — but it also pushes lexicographers to work faster even as it completely upends the business side of things.

He's not writing about the review - buying scandal, but about the contours of a profoundly upended business:

It's one of those issues — like so many in the upended business of publishing — that has no villain, regardless of how harsh someone's accusations may be.

Those are just some of the buzzwords circulating through the news cycle this year as the power sector kept its eyes pinned on federal climate regulations for utilities, an ambitious proceeding to upend their business model, and a monster merger in the nation's capital.

This could result in government regulation, which has the potential to upend the business models of some of the world's biggest companies.

Enter a world where robots, holograms, and even time travel might well upend the business of buying and selling property as we know it.

Not exact matches

That looks to change over the next few weeks as Dyson — the company that upended the vacuum, fan and hand dryer businesses — globally launches its own robo - vac, the 360 Eye.

The reason for Facebook's social media empire and Spotify's upending of the music streaming business?

Want to know how Airbnb upended the hotel business?

He says a few technologies are poised to seriously upend «business as usual» in health care in the near future, and they are not necessarily what you'd expect.

With the possible exception of oil and gas, most of Canada's core industries risk having their business models upended.

Scarred by the financial crisis, and often juggling student loan and other debt burdens, debt is correctly viewed as something that can upend or even sink a business.

A recent study by two Canadian business schools into what causes inflated executive pay upends some of the conventional wisdom about what causes executive salaries to increase over time.

Goodman, whose 1998 The Mansion on the Hill is one of the definitive books on the pre-Napster music industry, recounts Edgar's rise through the ranks of the family business and his all - in bet on the music business just in time for its business model to be upended by MP3 file - sharing.

After all, you have to be a little crazy to quit your job, upend your life and give yourself over to a business.

Trade groups say such a ruling would upend the franchise business model.

This is the business strategy of many other disruptive companies, including the home - sharing site Airbnb, which upends the idea of needing a hotel.

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon has introduced free, two - hour delivery from Whole Foods stores to its Prime members in four cities, offering a taste of how the e-commerce giant could upend the traditional grocery business now that it owns a national chain.

SAN FRANCISCO — The past few months have been good to Uber — the world's most valuable startup raised a record - breaking $ 3.5 billion in June and in April escaped a high - profile trial that threatened to upend its entire business model.

In virtually every industry around the world, blockchain is disintermediating traditional supply chains and, in turn, upending decades - old regulatory structures that have been built around a certain way of doing business.

Code / Commerce is a series of intimate, one - night events where you'll hear from digital - native retailers and payments companies upending existing business models, and brick - and - mortar giants like Target adapting their playbook for an increasingly mobile - first shopping world.

But bitcoin, the most famous of the cybermonies, carries a reputation for instability, wild fluctuation, and illicit business; some fear it has the power to eliminate jobs and to upend the concept of a nation - state.

There's a general consensus in the American workplace that time - worn ways of doing business are being upended at a brisk rate, thanks to factors like technology and globalization.

Witness the continued hollowing - out of traditional retail businesses, the upheaval in the media and telecommunications sectors, and the upending of advertising and marketing value chains.

The marijuana debate is just one example of how business as usual was upended in the General Assembly this year.

Twelve of the industry's biggest public relations authorities speak to BoF about the shifts upending the fashion communications business.

While many nonfiction authors want to use their books as «business cards» to help them gain sales, they can easily upend or suspend their regular marketing efforts and plow all their resources into marketing their books and not their businesses.

It can happen to any business that brokers creativity in the marketplace, especially when P&L s are upended by fast, deep transition.

And just because many have argued that the traditional book publishing industry's business model is outdated didn't mean that Amazon would be able to completely upend the way the industry does business in New York in two years.

Google, which in its early days in 1998 offered to sell itself for $ 1 million; and Facebook, which wasn't even launched until 2004, have completely upended the advertising industry, and are two of the most valuable (and plenty profitable) businesses in the world today.

The growth of mobile gaming is upending the longstanding business model of the business, which was based on the sale of games — and the devices to play them.

Maes» latest proclamation on environment (upending a century of water law) is likely to terrify neighboring state governors, business executives, and real estate developers so that conservation seems a side issue.

Perhaps no industry changes as quickly as the energy business, where technology, economics and even geopolitics can upend markets that have been in place for decades.

In fact, all the new and exciting business models that are upending traditional markets, hinge on controlling the increasingly cheap energy that is being digitally supplied by decarbonised, decentralised resources.

Business models in the media had been upended by Craigslist and Google.

After a conversation with Thomas L. Friedman, author of the book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty - first Century, about whether some of what was in the book would apply to the legal vertical, Mark started Clearspire, a virtual law firm and legal services company that upended the traditional law firm business model.

It comes at a time when the practice of law is in the midst of a technology - driven revolution and outsourcing, insourcing, and a glut of under - and un-employed law grads has upended accepted wisdom about the business of -LSB-...]

You see the way computers upended the taxi, hotel, book and shopping mall businesses?

In opposition to Texas - based Kinder Morgan, business and Indigenous leaders have united with property owners and indebted students, renegade Liberals, Green Party, and New Democrat supporters in an unlikely alliance that promises to upend B.C. politics, just as the B.C. Liberal government of Christy Clark prepare for a spring election.

Insurance Business America: Channel Integration could be the future of personal lines October 18, 2016 Developments in the online comparison and insurtech spaces promise to upend the status quo and redefine how insurance policies are sold.

The traditional way of doing business is being upended in light of new innovation and technology.

The Tesla comparisons are easy and obvious — a Southern California startup with aims on upending the auto business — but Faraday doesn't want to be seen as a mere Tesla clone.

«We are core believers in the benefits of incorporating Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) into existing business processes, rather than upending tried and tested operating models,» commented Talal Tabbaa, Jibrel Network co-founder and business development lead.