Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not rising costs. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Until recently, determining who works when involved store managers manually slotting each employee into shifts on paper. As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. So what should retailers do?

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a result, these retailers are cutting costs today, planting growth seeds for tomorrow, and setting the stage for accelerated strategic agility well into the future. So retailers manage their supply chains and overhead costs with a tight fist. The secret to the company's success at cost reduction? Grow Revenue.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. As the costs of things like phone calls and televisions have dropped, the cost for basic necessities like food and housing has soared.

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. 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. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Another indication that near-shoring is accelerating is the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The move to low-cost manufacturing in the 1990s was driven in part by cheap oil prices.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. Non-governmental organizations have calculated that it would cost about $600 million per year to bring all Bangladeshi factories up to Western standards. to produce properly.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Walmart's success doesn't just stem from impressive logistics, aggressive vendor management and its position as a low-cost retailer. furniture or large appliances) where it has no cost advantage, or where new service capabilities might be required. He serves as chair of the firm's Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council.

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The offsets become a tool, a last resort to be avoided, and both energy efficiency and using renewable energy (onsite or directly purchased) become the paths of least resistance and cost. And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. Sales/Becoming the Vendor of Choice. He's absolutely right.

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. What Is Discovery Driven-Planning?

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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. ” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

By leveraging connected mobile devices such as smartphones, existing in-venue Wi-Fi networks, low cost Bluetooth-enabled beacons, and a handful of other technologies, location analytics vendors have made it possible to get location analytics solutions up and running fast at a minimal cost. We are in the Age of the Customer.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Sectors calling for action included banking (Bank of America, Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo), the apparel industry (including Levi, Gap, Adidas, VF), and the World Economic Forum, which brought 79 CEOs together to urge action. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

With incremental revenue, cost savings, and customer loyalty all up for grabs, a range of players—from consumer product companies to digital and mobile technology firms—are already fiercely staking their claim. In the next decade, these trends will create a veritable gold rush in patient data and consumer options.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. Whatever approach you choose, you need to create appropriate levels of digital technology synergy, brand integration, investment coordination, skill development, vendor management, and innovation over the long term. Is IT clearly running well?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Mega weather took many lives and cost over $120 billion in the U.S. In reality, both views were right.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As The New York Times reports , Coca-Cola and Nike have come to see climate change as a threat to their ability to source the materials they need cost-effectively and reliably. Meanwhile, the world’s largest companies have begun to understand that their viability depends on a healthy world. They can …. Take Ownership. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon? In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

If you walk into a department store today, you are probably talking to a guy who is untrained; he was selling vacuum cleaners yesterday, and now he is in the apparel section. Cost isn’t an exogenous variable to be managed—it is the investment in doing the most important things well. It just does not work.”

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8