If the publisher of central times wanted to use reverse innovation to increase profits, what might she do?
(a) exactly what she is doing: appoint a cross-functional team to operate independently from the rest of the company so the newspaper can move entirely online.
(b) gradually reduce the size and coverage of central times while developing another business, such as book publishing, and then ending the newspaper
(c) benchmark best practices at newspapers that are facing the same competitive pressure from the internet but have maintained their profits
(d) figure out a way to print and distribute a very inexpensive newspaper that people want to read in haiti, then use the same technology and processes to revamp central times in the united states

Identify an organization with the low-total-cost value proposition and suggest at least two possible measures within each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives.

Lin corporation has a single product whose selling price is $136 per unit and whose variable expense is $68 per unit. the company’s monthly fixed expense is $32,400. required: 1. calculate the unit sales needed to attain a target profit of $5,000. (do not round intermediate calculations.) 2. calculate the dollar sales needed to attain a target profit of $8,400.

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u. s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.