Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Out of the Crisis resonated with me – not because of statistics, but because of the human factors, the psychology, and the workplace dynamics that I already recognized from the workplace, having worked a few part time retail jobs at that point. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer— filed for bankruptcy. The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Whether this will help J&J in the long run, no one knows.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2017

Launching a company in the retail industry is harder today than ever before. So, all new retailers need to launch a website too. Photo courtesy of 401(K) 2012 via flickr. Larger companies will always manage to undercut you if you catch their attention. Launch a website as well as a real-world store. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. A hearty thanks to all of the entrants to the Management 2.0

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Moreover, in a stunning display of large-scale, bounded rationality , more than 4600 of JC Penney’s head office staff used nearly 35% of the company’s broadband for streaming Youtube during office hours in 2012. Execution Managing people Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Showrooming , once a worry primarily for consumer electronics retailers, is expanding into markets we might have thought exempt. Chalk this up to the efficiency of digital retailers, who’ve systematically dismantled every obstacle to online shopping. A look at retailers who succeed despite showrooming reveals three design imperatives.

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Retail Reis Price Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. In an era of profound demographic change, another productivity revolution is a necessity. over the next 50 years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. The role of data is not to make a manager sound "analytical." A stunning 70% of U.S. It''s estimated that each U.S. Library of Congress.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Yet ROI leaders in our study also included telecoms, retailers, banks and high-tech companies.

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Retailers such as America’s Best Buy and Germany’s Media Markt also quit China last year while after nine years, Britain’s Tesco concluded that it was unlikely to make a dent on its own in China and entered into a joint venture with a state-owned enterprise, China Resources Enterprise.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures. Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. Witness the rapid growth in US productivity levels in the 1990s and 2000s in sectors such as retailing. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

In 2012, some estimate that information is doubling every 18 months and that the doubling time is shortening such that it will be doubling in a matter of days or weeks by the end of the year. And it may be true that if you can sell or manage one thing, say at a retail store, you can sell or manage any similar thing, at another retail store.

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Retail Gordon Education Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Management is chaotic by nature. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience. Important advice for smart people (and their parents and managers). Why I Hire People Who Fail. by Jeff Stibel. by Dorie Clark.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

A few years ago, one of the world's largest retailers had literally hundreds of initiatives going after same-store sales growth. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. IT management Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management.

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 One of the ways in which P&G managed to slow Dollar Shave Club’s encroachment was by responding with its own subscription entry, the Gillette Shave Club.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

How would you react if you observed a peer, employee, or manager doing so? And mindfulness research is convincing many managers that investing in reflection, openness, and thoughtfulness will have a positive impact on employees and on the bottom line. Intel began offering its Awake@Intel mindfulness program in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The story of MBH Architects, a northern California firm that designs retail stores, conveys an important lesson on how to survive such a cash crisis. Retailers halted construction on new stores and shuttered underperforming ones. Top management must be very careful about how they downsize the organization.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate. During this period, Home Depot was compelled to carry Cree products.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. In response, Dan Jones, chairman of the Lean Academy who worked with Tesco, commented that the retailer''s success is rooted in failure. "In

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Consumers spent six times as much time on retailers'' apps in December 2012 compared with the previous year. "Mobile first." Evaluation and purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Consumers spent six times as much time on retailers’ apps in December 2012 compared with the previous year. “Mobile first.”

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Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But when I learned that our retail partners had recently started asking about the impact of our sustainability programs, I agreed that Cabot would undergo the rigorous B Corp certification process to provide an objective measure. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This is especially true when you're trying to rekindle your retail business after decades of doing work elsewhere. It was just 20 years ago this week that a British software engineer sent the world's first text message, "Merry Christmas," to a manager at Vodafone. So goes the story of George Howell. Remembering SMS’s "Mr.

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Health Care Software Politics Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. Etsy offers its 1,00,000+ merchants a range of opportunities — such as online classes, in-person workshops, and video tutorials — to help them improve how they brand their stores, market their products, and even manage their inventories.

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Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. At the same time, offering repair supports the perceived quality of its products.

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Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. But it is simply unrealistic for a doctor — or any human being — to stay abreast of that much information, much less be able to recall accurately the relevant information on demand.

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Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. Participating retailers are promoted on the Silver Cross website, at health fairs, and on all marketing collateral.

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Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

The consumer-goods supply chain typically moves from large Western or indigenous manufacturers to distributors to wholesalers to family-owned shops and finally to micro-retailers selling from carts or by the roadside. — for temporary warehouse sites.

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Supply Chain EBITDA NGO Taylorism 8