N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

In the past, college graduates would gain employment as automotive industry managers and high school graduates would be well compensated by seeking factory jobs. Here in Michigan, the automotive industry has always been an everyday topic of conversation.

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Automotive Supply Chain Industry Engineering 95

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2011

Companies rely on data to make significant decisions that can affect customer service, regulatory compliance, supply chain, and many other areas. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Today, most businesses realize that their success is increasingly tied to the quality of their information. Consider leaving a comment!

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Quality White Paper Resources Supply Chain 50

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

.  My friend told me about an executive she knows named Bill who's been with the company for more than 30 years and who, through his leadership and tough love mentoring, has developed two generations of world class supply chain managers.  That's a legacy that's going to outlast Bill.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

The Skeptical Consumer: As social media platforms continue to grow beyond their pre-teen years (Twitter was only being used by 12-14 percent of the population in early 2011), consumers will demand more transparency from corporations and nonprofits. Those boards that close the focus gap on CSR will bring strategic insights to their CEOs.".

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. Climate change is so far reaching, companies will want some dedicated resources to manage the operational and regulatory terrain.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Think of providers and health plans as suppliers and manage them as such. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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. And they point toward one key pathway for managing – and even thriving – in a VUCA world: renewables. billion hit to earnings).

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, Express Scripts and Anthem were partners in the medical supply chain. A merger in this context may aim to better coordinate the supply chain by reducing the element of competition from the supplier relationship. This kind of competition can also be affected by mergers and may in itself drive deal making.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. But awareness of the challenges is the first step toward managing them. Simultaneously, it is keen to ensure that certification does not constitute an additional economic burden on the farmers.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

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?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. In 2011, the Coalition of Immokalee workers banded together to get consumers on board to pressure the agricultural industry to improve working conditions. We also published an accompanying toolkit, called #NowWhat ?,

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Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. As a CEO, I can't possibly hire all the people the company needs, so it's important for all the other hiring managers in the company to be proactive, too. Teach others.

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Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. ” Improving risk management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Walmart wrings maximum efficiency from its supply chain by integrating four capabilities – aggressive vendor management, expert point-of-sale data analytics, superior logistics, and rigorous working-capital management – that together deliver ‘everyday low prices’ to consumers. All rights reserved.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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%. Droughts and floods also enter the risk picture for any company dependent on an agricultural supply chain.

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Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

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.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

In 2011, CIOs of organizations large and small are going to face decisions about whether to keep old systems or upgrade. The machines were given to a friend, who sold them at a garage sale (I couldn't throw them away, because the CFO wouldn't authorize the $50 per machine "green" disposal fee.).

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. First, technology imitation occurs far more quickly today than in the past, due in part to the global base of technology competitors and the speed of reverse engineering.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. We know that the economy fell on its face at $147 per barrel in 2008, and brought growth to a halt in 2011 at $120.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

That leaves country managers in China with two choices, neither of which will be an easy sell at corporate headquarters (HQ) that are still looking for substantial top-line growth and above-average profits in emerging markets. In some industries, scale lowers supply chain costs but it doesn’t provide bargaining power over buyers.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. They might try what ING is doing with its café model. They might even reimagine what it is to lend money. Because that's the point.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review. And the sustainability pedigree is going to require a huge amount of input from managers all along the supply chain — they're going to balk at that.

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Case Study Innovation Committee Supply Chain 9

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. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

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.”.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

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.

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Reduce management’s risk in doing business with you. Cash outlays are always risks.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50