Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. But a high-performing organization should do much more than that: Supply chain and operational execs should be ready to shift production and logistics very quickly from one region to another.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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. Our business systems need leeway for extremes as well. So invest in capturing information and building real-time systems.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

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. on others as well as myself.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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

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

JUNE 2, 2017

“And advances in technology, along with increasingly complex supply chains, magnify the problem.” ” Still, the Supreme Court can only do so much to bring the patent system into the 21st century. Congress, however, has failed to pass any patent legislation since 2011. That was true in both of these cases.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Our system is at risk due to increasing inequality.”. Entrepreneurship can displace loyal legacy suppliers or products, along the way putting good people out of work, disorganizing and reorganizing supply chains and on the way down, depleting the wealth of the shareholders of deposed market leaders. “Inequality is bad.”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Imagine that you wanted a new home theater system. During Fashion Week in September 2011, Burberry did a direct campaign with an everyday consumer (not just the editors and fashionistas) to showcase their new line in what they called a #tweetwalk, letting users tweet about what they liked (or didn't). That is what social allows.

Porter 16

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 16

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

OCTOBER 4, 2011

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. At the same time, it costs $80-90 to bring a new barrel of supply online from marginal resources such as deepwater, tar sands, and the Arctic. And that ledge is getting narrower. but $100-110 in China.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

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 9

Case Study Innovation Committee Supply Chain 9

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 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams.

CEO 8

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.

Disintermediation 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. Most survey respondents probably miss these systemic issues. Additionally, only 11% ranked climate change as a very significant issue. That’s exactly right.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

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 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

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. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 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

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 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As consolidation expands, data and transparency become increasingly important, as a way to ensure that caregivers across the system are providing comparable care. To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes. percent in 1960.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. After 9/11, many companies analyzed these issues with respect to terrorist acts at their facilities or terrorist acts which, if not directed at the company, could still have significant impact on people, facilities, information and supply chain.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

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. He has since hanged himself.

Class 8

Class Health Care Supply Chain Globalization 8

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. Through the tax system, business interests that gain from these investments return funds to the government. But it can do much more.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Record snowfall in Boston of more than 100 inches in the winter of 2015 shut down transit systems for weeks and made it difficult, if not impossible, for some employees to get to work. Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia. after Hurricane Katrina.

Cost 8

Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

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. Ask yourself: How’s your company’s immune system holding up? Two years later, they sold it to TPG, for about $810 million. billion — not a bad value-creation story.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. Their system’s inability to deal with any kind of disruption. Communications.

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. AlphaGo was programmed to seek positive rewards in the form of scores and continually improve its system by playing millions of games against tweaked versions of itself. Natural languages.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8