Month: April 2020

Time to make the shift from volume to value

What is hyper-growth? The word hyper-growth was first coined by Alexander Izosimov in a 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review to describe, “the steep part of the S-curve that most young markets and industries experience at some point, where the winners get sorted from the losers”. Later, the World Economic Forum quantified hyper-growth as more than 40% CAGR […]

Industries thriving during Covid-19

Black swan events such as economic recessions and pandemics (or in the case of Covid-19, both) fundamentally alter the way businesses operate. Covid-19 has already hit industry hard and changed the way consumers and businesses behave. However, in the midst of major economic disruption, a few industries are thriving during Covid-19. Past epidemics like SARS in 2003 […]

Lessons for the travel industry from the SARS outbreak

The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) predicts that international tourist arrivals may fall by 20-30% in 2020 due unprecedented travel restrictions in light of Covid-19. Travel contributes 10% of the world’s GDP, which makes this number too high for governments across the world to ignore. However, this isn’t the first time the industry is going through […]

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