Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. Not all the technologies we need to do this well are in place – like building-scale energy storage at a reasonable cost – but we’re getting there.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

This perspective is a shift from existing strategy perspectives as it affects nearly every major decision a company makes, from growth initiatives, portfolio strategy, and M&A opportunities to its approach to budgeting and cost cutting. SD : How can capabilities-driven strategy be applied to cutting costs? SD : Why now?

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Moreover, not fixing the problem is quite likely to cost considerably more than addressing it. Munich Re reports that natural disasters in 2011 caused insurance companies to substantially spend down cash reserves, with payouts exceeding premiums in the US by 16%.

Insurance 8

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Actually, "used" doesn't quite convey it: They cost $29 each. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120. I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further. on others as well as myself.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. All of this is with the aim to reduce the marginal cost of the barrel from the current $70 a barrel to around $40.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources. We like the formulation of petroleum economist Chris Skrebowski , which defines peak oil as the point where "the cost of incremental supply exceeds the price economies can pay without destroying growth at a given point in time.".

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

However, with China’s growth slowing over the past two years, costs shooting up, the government making life difficult for multinational companies, and confusion following the reforms emanating from the Third Plenum in November 2013, some companies are heading in the opposite direction.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But when the capital requirements to enter markets have declined, the marginal cost of reaching consumers is effectively zero, and one-off production is not hard to do. Everything that is undifferentiated is going to be delivered in ever more efficient, low-cost ways. being big offers a much smaller advantage than it used to.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Today, few firms monopolize the technologies on which they rely, and they can no longer absorb the total costs of radical innovation alone. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

“And advances in technology, along with increasingly complex supply chains, magnify the problem.” Congress, however, has failed to pass any patent legislation since 2011. . “Extending the patent rights beyond the first sale would clog the channels of commerce,” the court said.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

As I have argued in my book, successful entrepreneurship can also make housing unaffordable, increase taxes, and elevate the cost of personal services; it can deplete public goods such as education and health by giving the newly wealthy a simple and immediate work around public systems that don’t function well.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Today’s digital revolution brings three new components: ubiquitous networks that connect people, devices, and systems instantly and globally; the data that these networks collect and the ability to store that data cost-effectively; and processing power and techniques that enable us to analyze and act on the available data.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point. If the owner of that subsidiary discounts profits in Egypt by 12.5

NPV 12

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. “Often there are factors related to manufacturing costs, potential drug interactions, and other factors which research scientists aren’t aware of.” The Era of Big Science. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

While marketing budgets have been steadily rising as a percentage of firm budgets since 2011, many CMOs still lack real authority over decisions that most affect the customer, since most are delivered through touch points not owned by marketing. This will probably happen if you don’t do that.’ That was very helpful.”.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Position your request as an investment, not a cost. Base Budgets on Value… Not on Cost. Inventory costs. Cost containment. Condense the funding cycle.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

As globalization has created longer and increasingly complex food supply chains, there has been a concomitant surge in demand for locally-sourced food. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. Some companies have ridden this wave.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Regardless of the cause, the cost to society of extreme weather has been rising for decades. The problems and costs of extreme weather are the same either way. After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. I'd say no. First, the "no" part.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Instead, it will be about costs and patient outcomes: quicker recoveries, fewer readmissions, lower infection rates, and fewer medical errors, to name a few. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. I know that Apple already provides $5,000 per year to cover tuition costs for “eligible” employees. But it can do much more.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In the aftermath, companies like Walmart, Gap, and Disney scrambled to identify whether their supply chain partners conduct work in the country, promising to reform an unwieldy system. The psychological toll may be even more dire: one man, Rafiqul Islam, cut eight people out of the wreckage with a hacksaw blade.

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Air quality and smog red alerts and the complete bans on vehicle traffic in major cities around the world highlight how traditional commerce and supply chains can and do grind to a halt because of climate risks. Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia.

Cost 8

Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” They are becoming costs of doing business that must be paid by all but provide distinction to none.” But Walmart changed not only how supply chains, product decisions, and pricing worked, but how they related to each other.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

To make everybody happy, to serve every need, to hedge every bet, many CEOs spread resources around democratically as their companies grow — and they lose the spikiness on the cost sheet that is the telltale sign not of profligacy but of focus. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 The result is a slide into mediocrity.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. The cost of implementation will continue to fall. 3) If new competitors replicate these capabilities by replacing human experts with machine algorithms, what is my cost structure compared to theirs?

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8