Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

For Jeco Plastic Products, 2011 was a landmark year. Two years ago, at the request of the Obama Administration, the Council on Competitiveness designed a public-private partnership to equip American manufacturers with the high performance computing technology needed to out-innovate and out-compete foreign competition.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Tools Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

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. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 313

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.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

In the fourth calendar quarter of 2011, Christmas shoppers snapped up 15 million iPads and 37 million iPhone 4Ss. But last week the New York Times also hit us with two powerful articles about Apple's supply chain that revealed some deeply troubling issues for the company's business model. It's time to rethink this assumption.

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Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles. A supply chain expert at heart, he undoubtedly loves to tackle problems that require moving from A to B more efficiently. Fault Line #1: At the Top.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

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.

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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.

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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.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. With events like those that have changed the power dynamics throughout the Arab world, or the tsunami in Japan that disrupted many global supply chains, it's easy to think that the world is becoming ever more connected and interdependent. But I prefer to think of it as globaloney.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 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

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

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.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain Real Estate 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

” Known more politely as “patent assertion entities,” these companies buy up unused and often weak patents, and then strategically sue technology companies large and small, claiming ownership of basic components of products that have long been in the market. Kraft , delivered a blow to so-called “patent trolls.”

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Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The theoretical optimized industry is one with two or three players performing very different roles.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

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

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.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 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. Unlike much larger companies, midsized firms usually lack deep operational and technological talent who can quickly recognize, understand, and resolve huge systems glitches.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Let’s consider first the example of Blink Booking , which Rebeca Minguela started in 2011 after graduating from HBS. What do I mean by nondigital components? Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based

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Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But today, both macroeconomic forces, and technological advances mean that customized products aren't just for the one percent. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold. By using the rules of the social era. Social Becomes Central to What We Build.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register.

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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.

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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 an Apple-produced television has the potential to be so much more. Telepresence will happen.

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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.

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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.

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. Looking Forward to 2011. China, China, China.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

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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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Yet, neither BP and the U.S.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality.

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. Yes, Apple already has some sustainability initiatives in its supply chain and other areas. But it can do much more.

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EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 10

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

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. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed. Communications.

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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.

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Company Supply Chain Core Competence Health Care 8