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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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 innovating for sustainable development is actually quite close to the processes of “traditional” innovation.

Goal 8

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?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Consumers will get easier access to new products and fewer limits on those they already own. As a result, companies of all sizes are increasingly hindered in efforts to bring new products and services to market by patent holders claiming infringement of even trivial features. .” In Impression Products v.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Today’s digital revolution brings three new components: ubiquitous networks that connect people, devices, and systems instantly and globally; the data that these networks collect and the ability to store that data cost-effectively; and processing power and techniques that enable us to analyze and act on the available data.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. But when the capital requirements to enter markets have declined, the marginal cost of reaching consumers is effectively zero, and one-off production is not hard to do.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Giving the CMO a clear role in the strategic planning process is a good start. 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.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

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.

Supply Chain 15

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.

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. Some companies have ridden this wave.

Supply Chain 8

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. These are ways to advance your funding process: Put money in management’s pockets.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Water availability, for example, is in the process of shifting, sometimes dramatically, which means more water and rains in some areas, and much less in others. When risk officers and smart business leaders look at climate this way, they can have productive conversations about how to build more resilient enterprises.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

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.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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. Eliminating all errors makes it hard to compete in the trial-and-error process that's required for a company to adjust, because there are no trials without errors.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Decision-Making Processes. These are issues which every company with potentially catastrophic processes, products, or plants needs to answer with a special team of "worst case" analysts.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Each step in this process leads to another. It’s analyzing processes, measuring outcomes, and changing practices until you get it right. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. A patient-focused institute combines medical and surgical departments for specific diseases or body systems. percent in 1960.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities. Employee education.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Greater productivity meant lower prices and faster growth, leading to increased industry dominance. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Every day they make a conscious choice to be world-class at the few extraordinary capabilities that make it possible to deliver a better product or service to customers. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 I want my supply chain team fighting to rationalize, to look for scale benefits. Focus is undemocratic.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

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. Egos and working mannerisms did not produce the most productive workforce. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Machines improved the way companies email, call, offer a discount, recommend a product, show an ad, inspect flaws, and approve loans. in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. Natural languages.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8