Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. What they found surprised them.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

In the booming era of the digital revolution, technological trends are no surprise to anyone. Likewise, it has hit the business industry, bringing some tech-savvy innovations, especially for the marketing department. In today’s tech-savvy world, escaping the advantages of digital marketing is impossible. Build Communities.

Marketing Strategy 70

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

During this time Reebok and Nike were blood rivals and neck and neck for the number one position in the market. With the Freestyle, Reebok had identified a market that Nike had completely missed — women''s aerobics. While each technology bumped sales, something was still missing. Advertising Branding Marketing'

Company 8

Company Apparel Brand Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Too many companies wait for the annual strategic off-site to roll around before they address the changing dynamics of their market. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. None of these are easy questions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? What is our company great at doing? What is needed to execute against that promise?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The other type of metric, an “impact” metric, shows that the ship is actually going somewhere.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 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. Facilitate discussion between competitors.

Apparel 14

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

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? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. They said, ''This kid is a fad. Everyone laughed."

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

It had focused on operational improvements inside the proverbial four walls of its factory — things like more efficiently heating and cooling the tomatoes and developing novel ways to pack the paste for shipment to customers. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Fashion apparel is an excellent example.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers. Companies line up like never before for climate action. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture. Not so fast.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

I met the team at Vineyard Vines while doing research about data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted , and was able to learn firsthand about the company’s beginnings, and what has made them so successful today. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. Data-Driven Marketing. To get a clearer, more-complete picture, we studied actual decisions made by 1,500 apparel and footwear shoppers in the United States. Insight Center.

Apparel 9

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 9

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. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. “It’s tribal.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture. came from renewables (solar alone was 72%).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The traditional paradigm for supply-chain management is to develop sophisticated tools to generate forecasts that accurately predict the value and the level of uncertainty of future demand. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Why does this matter? Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. Offering these unloved items in juices or as-is for 30% off has been a big winner for the company. Tough choices.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

especially in fast-growing foreign markets. for certain domestic markets due to rising costs abroad and labor productivity at home.) These have always been "must do's" in the long debate about labor markets in globalization, but clarity on these issues is especially necessary this year. Use of Revenues and Margins.

Offshoring 12

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8