Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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. national interest by threatening technology leakage or undermining the health of U.S.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 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. A company is clearly more at risk if it has just one major product, service, technology, key supplier, or other core element. Redundancy and buffers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Cesare Mainardi is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. 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.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. 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.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. 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.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

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

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The greening of the supply chain. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. But even great management cannot protect these airlines. It may even change the city.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

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.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. Of course, such plans will have to adapt to actual events, but without a robust plan, "seat of the pants" crisis management won't work.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Corporate Culture. Communications. Executives.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

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. Traditional propositions like “one-stop shop” or “supply chain optimization” will become commonplace, easily achievable by small players or new entrants in a number of industries.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8