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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress.

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Why CSR's Future Matters to Your Company

Harvard Business Review

in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). The Corporate Leadership Council reports that highly engaged organizations have the potential to reduce staff turnover by 87% and improve performance by 20%. Those boards that close the focus gap on CSR will bring strategic insights to their CEOs.".

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both.

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CEOs Are Getting Fired for Ethical Lapses More Than They Used To

Harvard Business Review

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% More extended global supply chains also increase these counterparty risks. of all successions at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies. From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase.

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