Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

We are on the verge of a major upheaval in the way inventory is managed. In order to make effective use of this new data and to stay competitive, managers will need to redesign their supply-chain processes. For example, does use of these data-driven tools lower cost and/or enhance customer service? Why does this matter?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

Thinking of these as measurement or reporting tools misses the point. These are innovation tools. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition offers a glimpse of one such effort. In 2008, Dairy Management Inc. The reward: the business-to-business innovation opportunity that comes with getting this whole system view.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Until recently, determining who works when involved store managers manually slotting each employee into shifts on paper. At a factory in Southern China, for example, executives thought that watching workers would help managers increase productivity and lower costs.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Provide them with a platform to participate in your products and services — as Coca-Cola managed to do with its personalized “Share a Coke” initiative — and then you have the chance to embed people directly into the narrative or fabric of your brand. Brands are no longer only tokens of culture and lifestyle.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But this massive gap has fueled the advent of some concerning new approaches including automated diversity sourcing tools that try to guess candidates’ ethnicity and gender by scanning their name. Leading apparel company Theory uses Mathison’s Equal Hiring Index system as its primary DEI assessment and reporting system.

Diversity 98

Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

As an investor, I think about financial risk a lot, and I’ve become interested in using the tools of the investor’s trade in managing the large and small risks we face regularly. Sara Campbell, a talented dress designer, sold the majority of her apparel as a private label supplier to national chains. Right-timing.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Apparel Absenteeism Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

After all, its past hackathons have given rise to wildly popular features, such as its instant messaging feature Facebook Chat and Instagram’s time-lapse tool Hyperlapse. Armed with this information, the company developed prototypes for new tools that aim to help millennials avoid financial pitfalls and manage their money better.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. ” So, this challenge at work, the crisis of trying to manage modern work, has gone from a nuisance to a business imperative. Almost half of the respondents say that they are requesting tools to manage work.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

It’s become an essential tool for understanding online customer behaviors and driving site improvement efforts. Just as web analytics is an essential tool on the Web, location analytics will become a must-have for designing, managing, and measuring offline experiences.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We define capabilities not as "people capabilities," but as the interconnected people, knowledge, systems, tools and processes that create differentiated value. Walmart's success doesn't just stem from impressive logistics, aggressive vendor management and its position as a low-cost retailer. Let's take a closer look.

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors. It''s OK to experiment with new businesses and tools, but experimentation must be coupled with building scalable, efficient capabilities. Is CDO the next step for the aspiring CIO-Plus?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The Goldminer strategy will typically involve vertically integrated players (large institutions like insurers, hospitals, and physicians’ groups) creating medical value by better managing the health of the heaviest users of healthcare: the 30% of patients with complex conditions that comprise 75% to 80% of all medical spending.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

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. This focus on actual emissions and outcomes is the right way to go.

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. ” Discovery-driven planning has since become a staple in business schools’ entrepreneurship curricula and a go-to technique for those who manage innovation.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

But in Brazil WhatsApp has become something much bigger than a chat app: a one-stop solution for everyone, from small businesses to government agencies, to manage everything, from transactions to relationships. How WhatsApp became a tool for businesses. They should be able to receive, manage, and respond to users.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Apparel Content 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. the congress passed tax credits for solar and wind at the last minute this year.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 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.". Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Company Stories.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. CEOs expect comp to fix anything, but usually you need other tools. The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous. Indeed, his 360 had been eye-opening. “OK.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

At times this belief has led the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin into pretty fierce debates with his intellectual opponents. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management? Gut feelings are tools for an uncertain world. But he feeds you. They’re not caprice.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. So let’s focus on these two first, and then run quickly through seven other interesting stories.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8