N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? A couple of years ago, for instance, when an apparel company mapped out what it thought was its new growth efforts, it found to its chagrin that a number of projects existed on paper, but that they were zero staffed – that is, no one was actually working on them.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Fara Howard , VP of global marketing for the shoe and apparel firm Vans, describes her brand as “an intuitive brand that leads with its heart.” She described ethnographic field research where, armed with cameras, Vans leadership hit the road to observe customers out in the wild. It resonated.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 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. If your CIO is good, look to him for help.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 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. Then from 2000 to 2014, everything got wildly more expensive , doubling and tripling at least.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

On the use side of the water issue, companies with products that depend on water in production (beverages) or in use (shampoo, apparel) are also seeing the writing on the wall and getting creative. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. The most skilled innovators put resources behind their strongest pitches and hone them further after the hackathon ends.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8