Strategic innovation is ripping up the business model rule book

Tesla was -

A German rocket scientist captured by the US

An acronym for Texas Electrical Sciences Limited Associates

An acronym for Total Electrical Solutions Los Angeles

The name of a prolific electrical inventor and scientist

A disrupter is best described as being an organisation which is -

A temporary mutation which sooner or later will either die away or converge the established industry model

Someone who is deluded that they can win but invariably they do not at all

Someone who simply gets excited about causing damage competitively

Someone who thinks and competes differently and in such a way that incumbents would find it difficult or impossible to compete with

The Tesla financial strategy is best characterised as -

Seed capital and loans - from government

Seed capital, loans and equity shares

It has not got one

A mixture of seed capital, loans - from government, and equity shares

Supplying other car manufacturers may have a logic as -

They will not be as vicious competitively as a result

It will drive Tesla down the experience curve faster, reduce costs and increase profits

It will create an invisible cartel

They can more easily spy on them

The Tesla business model is -

Exploiting electrical competencies across multiple markets

The upmarket sports car market

Engines and cars manufactured for the upmarket sports car market

Making transportation through electricity available to the masses

Why is it implied that car manufacturers failed to exploit an opportunity that they had known about for a very long time?

They felt it was easier and profitable as they could just milk their market

They just lacked the R&D

The industry mind-set - their perceptions, expectations and assumptions of the industry were just inherently hostile to electric cars, full stop

They are the slaves to the oil industry

From the article you might best characterise Tesla, as -

A bunch of geeks who are getting carried away with technology with flagrant disregard for short and medium term profitability and no real clue about longer term economic value

A highly dynamic organisation with clear vision, clear definition of its business and highly innovative culture

An organisation that is living off its own self -generated hype which lacks any real, sound foundation

An organisation addicted to raising money which to date has been their truly distinctive competence

According to the article, the growth of Tesla -

Is increasing, and this trend itself is strengthening

Is threatened by its short product life cycles

Has been, and is gradual

Is stop/start

In the article we covered how many areas of advantage from a customer perspective -

Three

At least five

One

Four

From what has been said -

Tesla management is obviously just empire building

Tesla simply has no strategy or control over this area

Tesla controls its headcount tightly as most companies do

Tesla people strategy closely follows its business strategy rather than being artificially constrained by the numbers (of people and money)

Strategic innovation is ripping up the business model rule book

Tesla was -

A disrupter is best described as being an organisation which is -

The Tesla financial strategy is best characterised as -

Supplying other car manufacturers may have a logic as -

The Tesla business model is -

Why is it implied that car manufacturers failed to exploit an opportunity that they had known about for a very long time?

From the article you might best characterise Tesla, as -

According to the article, the growth of Tesla -

In the article we covered how many areas of advantage from a customer perspective -

From what has been said -

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