Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The news is part of a larger trend of closings that some are calling the retail apocalypse. The rise of e-commerce, combined with a shift in consumer preference toward dining out over shopping and with years of overbuilding , has made for distinctly unattractive economics in traditional retail. billion purchase of Whole Foods.

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Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. New healthcare laws also suggest a possible increase in entrepreneurial activity, thus creating more jobs, hopefully creating a positive hiring trend. Will the steady increase in the economy translate into a positive hiring forecast?

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Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. China, China, and China.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. About the Author Jez Frampton is Interbrand’s Global CEO responsible for managing the firm’s worldwide interests and enhancing its strategic and creative offerings.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 71

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. With that understanding, focus on how you will continuously recycle resources from invention to deployment, management, offloading and back. We want to come out strong.”

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources. Best practices for resource optimization are tied to performance management by answering questions such as: “Were recommended decisions put into action?”

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Below are a few of our most popular pieces covering nascent trends and new opportunities. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Where are the next trends and opportunities? This chapter talks candidly about recent trends. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Why did the scandals and corporate disrepute occur?

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers. This new solution enabled retailers to better understand their customers, track their behavior, and deliver personalized offers based on Capillary''s predictive analytics capability.

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Technology Innovation CRM Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The managing director needs to know when and where we're launching. Google Trends is telling us one thing. Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. But Google Trends was a whole new world for her. I can't wait any longer. And why are you smiling?".

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Cost Marketing Management Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. A few years ago, community managers did not exist.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

Barnes & Noble (B&N), America's largest bookseller, is bucking these trends. In the first quarter of 2011, industry-wide book sales were down 2.5% Any big retailer makes long-term financial forecasts to assess the viability of store sites, yet B&N understands that its projections must be exceptionally uncertain these days.

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Strategy Retail Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. These instruments share a common objective: to influence purchase decisions by equipping consumers with incremental spending power for specific brands and retailers. What does this mean for retailers and brands? Gift cards.

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Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

When it comes to e-commerce across the globe, I''ve noticed a very interesting trend. Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. Entrepreneurship Global business Retail COD'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Retailers such as America’s Best Buy and Germany’s Media Markt also quit China last year while after nine years, Britain’s Tesco concluded that it was unlikely to make a dent on its own in China and entered into a joint venture with a state-owned enterprise, China Resources Enterprise.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Our research on China’s prospects, in comparison to the development trends of 167 countries over 60 years, highlights the magnitude of the opportunity. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% In Brazil, Microsoft and Google helped overcome a similar problem in city slums, home to some 11 million people, many of whom own smart phones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. Fortunately for suppliers and retailers, interested consumers expect to pay higher prices for the locally sourced, farm-to-table product. Nor would you want it to be.

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Many industries, from retail to manufacturing, have been fundamentally transformed by Silicon Valley technology,” said Zawacki.

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

We designed a one-day workshop for planning and, in 2011, took it on the road to venues across the country. In each case, the workshop participants included government planners (federal, state, and local), shippers (retailers, manufacturers, distributors, etc.), The scenario planning method offers a way around that obstacle.

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011. Though the sample was relatively small, the trend was quite strong.

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