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.  Both I and our organization will benefit from her efforts.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. For our manufacturing organization mentioned above, what value is there in pursuing next practice innovation in their payroll process?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

For Jeco Plastic Products, 2011 was a landmark year. The partnership — later named the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium , or NDEMC — would revolutionize how America's manufacturing supply chain does business. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Engaged organizations also grew profits as much as three times faster than their competitors. The Corporate Leadership Council reports that highly engaged organizations have the potential to reduce staff turnover by 87% and improve performance by 20%. Cause-Marketing: Cause-marketing programs will multiply.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” Today we face a set of unprecedented disruptions under the “sustainability” banner that are driving deep change in organizations (indeed, the HBS paper is mainly about the rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer). Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. The Future of Operations.

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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.

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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. Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict.

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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?

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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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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.

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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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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. And sponsorship is critical to opening doors to these jobs.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. It's something that allows organizations to do things entirely differently — if we let it become the backbone of our business models.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

” (For the record, Lemley organized a friend of the court brief arguing for the interpretation of patent law the court adopted.). “And advances in technology, along with increasingly complex supply chains, magnify the problem.” Congress, however, has failed to pass any patent legislation since 2011.

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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.

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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. ” The company has organized its own Research Frontiers Institute along similar lines. The Valley of Death.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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. Nor would you want it to be.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Cash outlays are justifiable either by dollars they bring in or dollars they stand to save for the organization. Any company or organization is like a tree. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. by Hank Moore.

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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. Go military green!

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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.

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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. An organization where everyone does the same things in the same way — an efficient organization, in other words — is often ill-equipped to adapt to a changing world.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In the aftermath, companies like Walmart, Gap, and Disney scrambled to identify whether their supply chain partners conduct work in the country, promising to reform an unwieldy system. Ad hoc and grassroots organizations are trying to identify and help those who might be suffering psychological effects from the disaster.

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