In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

I’ve also written a historical novel, although I’m still trying to find a publisher who isn’t afraid to invest in a newbie, grey-haired writer in a market going through drastic change. He (97% of Fortune 1000 companies are led by men) is: 1. The “M” Word: A Company’s Most Underrated Intangible. Visionary.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 23, 2011

My intent was to write about business, life and writing - 30 posts later, I’ve managed but one post on life (Lessons from 9-year Olds) and one on writing (Branding the Aspiring Novelist). The “M” Word: A Company’s Most Underrated Intangible. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter.

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Crisis CEO Brand Apparel 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. jessica solomatenko/Getty Images.

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 14

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

.” But this much we know: As president of Athleta , the women’s athletic wear company, Teno helped build an organization known for its collaborative, heart-led culture. (My We also know he led Athleta through tremendous growth and helped engineer the sale of the company to Gap in 2008 for $150 million. Know your culture.

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Apparel Energy Workshop Uncertainty 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

All the world's apparel manufacturers and retailers have joined the race to clothe China. Unsurprisingly, apparel spending in China has been growing by a robust 16% per annum. In 2009, sales totaled $114 billion, making China the world's second-largest apparel market behind the $287 billion U.S.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. Many activists are asking some very tough and fundamental strategic questions: Are the company’s investments in the right place? Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? But that’s an unfair oversimplification.

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Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. In today’s dynamic business environment, leaders of large established companies need more than ever to run and reinvent the business at the same time. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

How the best companies get up to speed. A D2C initiative can involve one platform or many, depending on things like image, objectives, target audience, and what’s feasible in a given market. The cosmetic company responded with a new product, and backed it up with a dedicated consumer marketing plan.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

We are on the verge of a major upheaval in the way inventory is managed. In order to make effective use of this new data and to stay competitive, managers will need to redesign their supply-chain processes. Prescriptive analytics, however, has eluded most users of Big Data to date.

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Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. Today, still under the marvelous management of Tony Hsieh, Zappos sales are well over $2 billion. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S.

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Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. and Europe. All too often they don’t.

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Price Retail Discount Tactics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

She started an eponymous foundation focused on understanding a better way for the economy to manage its resources. We have three billion new middle class consumers coming into the world and there's more and more pressure to find out how to manage these resources. The marketing model changes. I had no experience here.

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Company Apparel Engineering Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Here’s a truth: many in the marketing industry today don’t really understand brands. If companies can get their data-driven content and platforms right — as brands such as Lego, GoPro, Marriott, and KLM have done – you can turn people into media, willing to spontaneously spread your brand’s gospel far and wide.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. China will therefore manage to produce the steel it needs without relying on US imports. Given the importance of the Chinese market, the auto majors would have to be responsive to these demands.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline. Measuring Marketing Insights.

Retail 12

Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

When Gilbane, a family-owned construction company, hired a design firm for a rebranding, the designers surveyed Gilbane’s clients and came back with an important finding: Do not discount the fact that the firm is a “family-owned” business. The companies surveyed had average sales of $3.48

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B2B Press Release Construction Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

What drives some companies to succeed while others languish? Successful companies develop a system of a few truly unique capabilities that help them create differentiated value for their chosen customers. Focus for us, therefore, is not about picking just one market , but rather about choosing one coherent way of competing.

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. in 2015, which requires larger companies doing business in Britain to publish a board-approved, public annual slavery and human trafficking statement.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. The vast majority of board members told us their companies are hiring in double-digits and across the globe. Asia into North America).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The last few weeks have brought news of turmoil in China, including currency devaluations, an economic slowdown, and a stock market plunge. manufacturing companies, defined as firms that have their headquarters in the United States, responded. companies responded that they were “definitively” planning to do so.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Ideally that sustainability could be achieved through market mechanisms — which would be possible if the products that took a bigger toll on the planet also cost more to buy in stores. Common measurements lead to cooperative management, and the pieces fall into place. Unfortunately, the opposite tends to be the case today.

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Cost Productivity Products Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

So when the messaging service WhatsApp entered the market, in 2009 , allowing users to send messages to anyone for free and regardless of their mobile carrier, people gravitated toward the platform. WhatsApp was originally marketed as an app with one purpose: messaging. They should be able to receive, manage, and respond to users.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Apparel Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. First, these companies commit to an identity.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets.

Apparel 14

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

Brands in categories from apparel to automotive to sporting goods to spirits are licensed. It can boost brand exposure and expansion without significant investment, helping companies enter international markets or play in new product categories without having to incur the usual product development costs and risks.

Brand 8

Brand Licensing Apparel Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

companies would show no earnings growth in the early part of this year. But CEOs can't rely on cost-cutting to keep their profit momentum going — it's gone about as far as it can at most companies. I am often amazed at the helter-skelter way that companies pursue organic growth. Many chase market share they'll never get.

Retail 10

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Today he has more than 125 stores in the world’s most affluent urban locations and a company valued in excess of $1.5 From the outset, all three men viewed themselves as serving in multiple roles: founder, custodian, brand manager, chief financial officer, recruiter, and head of consumer insights. Set your company up for success.

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Brand Merchandising Chief Financial Officer Retail 8