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Uncertainty business strategy by bhawani nandan prasad iim calcutta
1. Risk, Uncertainty and Business
Strategy
Atanu Mukherjee
1st November, 2011
Dastur Business & Technology Consulting
2. 2
The Business Environment Today
> Globalization
> Volatility
> Macroeconomic instability
> Environmental constraints
> Changing demography
> Resource and energy limitations
> Accelerated boom-bust cycles
3. Oil Price Volatility (1985 -2005)
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25
30
35
40
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50
1985
1990
1995
2000
Data/Source: World Oil Prices (current $ / Barrel)- EIA Office of Integration Analysis and Forecasting
Forecast
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Forecast
Forecast
Actual
Actual
Actual Actual
Actual
Actual
Actual
10-yr
Forecast
Error
5-yr
Forecast
Error
4. 4
Commodity demand collapse ?
http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm
Baltic Exchange Dry Index
Commodity Research Bureau Index
15. Creating Value in Uncertainty â
Disruptive Innovation
Performance
Time
Established technology
Mainstream customer needs
Niche customer needs
Invasive Technology
19. How not to:
Financial tools:
DCF, NPV, IRR Stage gate
development
Top down market
analysis
Decisions based on
customer wish list
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20. How to:
Tackle hard problems
Imagine what could be
Let technology lead market
Fail often, fail early, keep trying
Find the best people, who disagree with you
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21. âIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not
dare that they are difficult.â
- Seneca
âTry and fail, but don't fail to try.â
- Stephen Kaggwa
âCourage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless
you're scared.â
- Eddie Rickenbacker
âOnly those who dare fail greatly can achieve greatly.â
- Robert F. Kennedy
âYou will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.â
- Maya Angelou
The willingness to fail gives us the
freedom to succeed
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22. When did it fail?
Evaluating âFailuresâ
HOW DO I DO IT BETTER NEXT
TIME??
Iteration is key
Why did it fail?
Causal vs. experiential reasoning
Assumptions change vs. Environments change
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23. âTried that before and it doesnât workâ
Accumulated experience restrains/constrains thinking
Assumptions change all the time
Reexamine everything
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25. 25
Source: Clay Christenson âUntangling Skill and Luckâ (7/15/2010); Michael Mauboussin, Legg Mason Capital Management; Steven Johnson
disruptive innovation & disruptors
Low-End Segment
Strategy
Create a new
marketâŠ
Amazon.com /
NetflixâŠ
Google / iPhone / iPad /
Facebook TwitterâŠ
Invent the marketDisrupt the market
âŠmove up market
with lower cost
New-
Consumption
Strategy
Create a new
experience
iPod / iTunes/Kindle/
Netfllix Online
Invent by design
Re-invent
Consumption
Strategy
introduce a low-end
loss leaderâŠ
a product that
hasnât existed
use design to re-
invent product
35. cost: driving down the cost curve
Source: âThe Carbon Productivity Challengeâ, McKinsey â Original from UC Berkely Energy Resource Group, Navigant Consulting
36. 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035
Cost(Normalized)
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035
Cost(Normalized)
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035
Cost(Normalized)
cost: not all technology curves are the same
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035
Cost(Normalized)
Cheapest now does not mean
cheapest later!
Trajectory Matters!Solar PV
Wind
Coal
38. but tech cost decline isnât enoughâŠ
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040
Cost(Normalized)
Construction Cost
Inputs (Feedstock/Land)
Technology Cost
Total Cost
Total cost decline is based on relative
proportion of cost âtypesââŠ
41. âș Short Innovation Cycles (3-5 years)
âș Short investor return cycles
âș Mitigate technical & market risk cheaply
âș Unsubsidized market competition
Private money will flow to
ventures that return investment in
3-5 year cycles!
capital formation
43. irrational ideas: eat kangaroos, not cows!
Source â http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSSYD8867720080808
âSYDNEY (Reuters) - Farming kangaroos
instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could
cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse
gases produced by grazing livestock, which
account for 11 percent of the nation's
annual emissions, said a new study.â
44. irrational ideas: toilet paper
I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares
[sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one
sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding
American of his or her God-given rights, but I think
we are an industrious enough people that we can
make it work with only one square per restroom
visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions
where 2 to 3 could be required.
- Sheryl Crow
âą Source - http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/04/singer_turned_a.html