Figuring that the best way to start a chain is not to make it look like a chain, Caring bought out the lease from a bar at a reputedly huge premium, and set about creating a new market-ready concept from scratch – if you can call a by-the-numbers synthesis of Chicken Shop and Shake Shack 'creating'creating
Over the years many different SCM systems sharing similar concepts have been implemented from scratch.
When BCG was an unknown, tiny company, Bruce spent his energy on just two things: inventing the concepts of "business strategy" from scratch; and writing very short "tracts" -- what today we would call blogs -- in the form of dark green Perspectives, each on one aspect of strategy, which he then mailed to CEOs.
One advantage of buying into a franchise concept, rather than starting from scratch, is that the development decisions have already been made for you.
It rebuilt the concept of the British rapper from scratch, it has created megastars and restructured the British pop industry by allowing the children of a few square miles of London's council estates past the velvet rope and into the world of hyper-celebrity.
We've seen a lot of Kinect hacks, but so far (they tell me) they've all been pretty much put together in C, and while we do talk trash about Flash a lot, I can see it working as a great rapid-prototyping option for a UI designer looking to put together something in Kinect, or a game developer wanting to try out a concept before coding it up from scratch.
Patterson essentially had to invent from scratch the concept of a clean room and the procedures for its use in order to overcome this difficulty.
"We have taken the latest urban development concepts to plan Fengxi New City from scratch," says Kang Zhenfeng, deputy director of the managing committee for Fengxi New City.
Celera went from concept to building a new plant from scratch to completed genome sequence in just 25 months, despite predictions of the consortium's experts that its DNA sequencing strategy was bound to fail.
Celera went from a concept to building a new plant from scratch to completed genome sequence in just 25 months, despite the predictions of the consortium's experts that its DNA sequencing strategy was bound to fail.
