Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations. New operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

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

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo. At the same time, surveys on consumers in the US and UK show that they also care about minimizing energy use and reducing waste.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 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. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the last few years, our company Mathison , has been leading global research on the hiring practices of hundreds of employers, authoring the first book in our space, Hiring for Diversity and developing holistic technology to help employers identify gaps in their hiring process, define their strategy, and equip the entire team to take action.

Diversity 98

Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

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. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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. Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

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. To get a clearer, more-complete picture, we studied actual decisions made by 1,500 apparel and footwear shoppers in the United States. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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

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. Enter Fayez Mohamood and his team at Bluecore, a retail marketing automation platform.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 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. Use of this relationship can lead to better operational performance. The Future of Operations. Why does this matter? Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Over the course of several months, a digital platform was developed that could capture every fan interaction (whether a mobile check-in at the stadium, a profile update on the website, or a merchandise purchase online), deliver targeted promotional campaigns, and collect club mentions and other data from social media.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. A teenager pressures Cola-Cola and Pepsi – and wins.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

can benefit consumers and the economy with lower cost (although foreign operations often sell in foreign markets). The cash from high revenues and margins is also often used to enhance the corporation: for improving its operations, productivity, technology and products, or for increasing reach and scale efficiencies through acquisitions.

Offshoring 13

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

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. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

This year, there were countless eco-efficiency stories about companies saving millions of dollars and developing new tools to make buildings, fleets ( Staples and UPS, for example ), and manufacturing much leaner. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Company Stories.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8