Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. You can offer new products and services to your existing customers that complement your existing offerings. With all this in place, Starbucks can move with assurance to expand.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

One group of high-growth consumer brands, in particular, has been harnessing the power of the “brand network effect,” by leveraging technology to build large, passionate online communities around their products. And a large part of its success is tied to how it leverages technology in its products—and in its marketing.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. Second, companies can use machines to supercharge the productivity and effectiveness of workers in unprecedented ways. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate?

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 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. Where Did Discovery-Driven Planning Originate? ” But new ventures are uncertain from the start. .

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. This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

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. manufacturers were doing about bringing production back to the United States and what factors were driving their decision process. production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. On the Sephora Beauty Board, community members can upload photos of their favorite “looks” with the makeup products that made it possible. Click on a product and you can make a purchase. Transactions and relationships. Size and speed.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. Disclosure:Anheuser-Busch is a former client.)

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

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.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem. The new approach was very successful, and Zappos scaled it by insourcing operations to increase efficiency and by expanding the product line to handbags, eyewear, and other clothing, to benefit from economies of scope.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. This exercise revealed an important insight: Millennials didn’t find switching banks onerous if they liked a bank’s products.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 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

JULY 1, 2011

While getting accurate, timely carbon data from your own operations can be tough, gathering data from outside your four walls is a far greater challenge given the complexity and scale of most supply chains, and there's no well-defined way today to navigate it. These are innovation tools. In 2008, Dairy Management Inc.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 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. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. ” Read More from Microsoft.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In a study of 41 stores of a women’s apparel retailer , for example, Saravanan Kesavan and his co-authors found that all of the stores were understaffed significantly during the peak periods of the day, while they were significantly overstaffed during the rest of the hours. A lot of flexibility isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

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. Walmart and Target demonstrated how this works by convening a Personal Care Products Sustainability Summit.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

It’s easy to scan headlines and see undisciplined for-profit companies (take GM, American Apparel). Bad Reason #2: Only for-profits can sell a product or service. Whether your organization is a for-profit or nonprofit doesn’t typically affect your ability to sell products. nonprofits may sell products (Girl Scout cookies!)

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Story by Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partners.

Organization 14

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The rapid growth of natural gas production (the biggest energy story of the year) and the high-profile failure of one solar manufacturer (Solyndra) have confused people about the prospects for clean tech. In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. days of innovation). In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8