Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative. Choose providers organized around reliable systems.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Like the rising temperature of the water the proverbial frog is sitting in, organizations are feeling the social era all around them, but failing to notice how significant a change it has produced.

Banking 20

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% More extended global supply chains also increase these counterparty risks. For all CEOs, and especially those who oversee large organizations, the responsibility for preventing or minimizing wrongdoing is daunting.

Ethics 8

Ethics CEO Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 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 16

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Can you change the way a large organization — such as the federal government — does its work, when all the forces are arrayed for stability and conservatism?

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 13

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 ?,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

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. In 2011, CIOs of organizations large and small are going to face decisions about whether to keep old systems or upgrade.

Technology 16

Technology CIO CFO TCO 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Size once gave organizations purchasing power. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. Porter's value chain is well suited for this mass-market, cost-driven approach, where customers remain at the end of the value chain.

Porter 21

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 21

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Organizations that are clear-minded about where and how they participate in a market spend less on those capabilities that are not competitively differentiating. These organizations move in lockstep, because everyone understands what’s important. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence.

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Marketers need to know where their markets are going and where their customers are going, and then lead the rest of the organization.”. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Make the CMO the “bonding agent” that connects the organization. Who should lead our transformation? It must be marketing.

CEO 11

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

But sponsors have significant influence inside an organization and advocate on your behalf, especially when high profile assignments are being discussed and names considered. ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. ” Ilene H. It’s not lack of CEO experience.

P&L 256

P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The truth is that some of the problems we face today are simply too big and complex to be solved by any one organization. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” The Valley of Death.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

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.

Case Study 11

Case Study Innovation Committee Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers. 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.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 18

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Cash outlays are justifiable either by dollars they bring in or dollars they stand to save for the organization. Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Any company or organization is like a tree. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Cash outlays are always risks. by Hank Moore.

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. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Or how about China's unparalleled (and some would say illegal) support for its renewables companies , which has the World Trade Organization fretting about trade barriers ? Now for the company-level stories: Supply chain pressure continues to rise (a.k.a., Looking Forward to 2011. trillion by 2020. Big goals were back.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Extreme weather brings unpredictable dangers for physical assets or massive disruptions to supply chains (like auto and hard drive companies found out with floods in Thailand in 2011). You can’t re-arrange supply chains to avoid droughts or storm risk quickly, or flood-protect or move your facilities on the fly.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. In the Thailand floods of November 2011, both the hard-drive industry and the automotive sector experienced serious supply chain problems. This kind of disruption is only going to grow.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 10

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. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation. Everyone knows the story.

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. The authors also say Lululemon should probably pay more attention to its supply chain.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011.

Health Care 13

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Any company or organization is like a tree. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57