Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In this digital age, the perception of your business matters more than ever as it is the fundamental reason why consumers choose one product over another. Always keep tabs on the competition and any key developments in the field in which you operate. Use high-quality promotional materials.

Press Release 50

Press Release Apparel Brand Media 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. In addition to improved product quality and delivery times, the lean approach has been linked to improved terms of employment. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Ideally that sustainability could be achieved through market mechanisms — which would be possible if the products that took a bigger toll on the planet also cost more to buy in stores. In a sustainable economy, businesses would serve consumer needs in ways that did not reduce the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

Cost 8

Cost Productivity Products Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. Operations in a Connected World. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. These facts raise an important question: Do companies have a responsibility to understand, and potentially improve, the societies in which their products are made?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Finally, there’s the harsh reality of biophysical limits seriously compromising these companies’ ability to source their products. Slavery is still a problem.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

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. One such customer is Morning Star , a world leader in the production of industrial tomato paste. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. In-N-Out Burger.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. To ensure that a strong product assortment can draw people into its stores, Sears should work on buttressing relationships with the vendors of its top brands. Sears can take a cue from Marvel.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Airlines Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. Chobani provides an example of how a product that delivers a noticeably different experience can overtake the competition. For example, look at Lululemon.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Will we see the day when all products carry environmental labels with data on carbon emissions and other impacts? The attempt to give corporate buyers and end consumers more sustainability data about the products they are purchasing has had a somewhat tortured history. Or total energy use during the product's lifetime?

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries). Celebrate it.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

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

APRIL 15, 2016

Listing it on the company’s Facebook and Twitter profiles and right on the product package is a good place to start. When crafting your next campaign, ask yourself, “When my customers buy my product, what other need do they have? Either set up a 24/7 operation for messaging or clearly state your operating hours.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller one. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. What part of your iPad is made by Apple? Yet the associated moral hazard often goes unnoticed.

Morale 9

Morale Apparel Ethics Media 9

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

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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. Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

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

AUGUST 2, 2011

For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets. Competitors in the auto, computer, and apparel industries frequently rely on the same suppliers and distributors, and to keep them healthy need to make sure that the overall industry does well.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. 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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

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). So if your company made production-sourcing decisions five, seven, or 10 years ago, it may need to revisit those decisions today.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

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

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. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Nina laughed.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence. million sales consultants.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in their original article, “conventional planning operates on the premise that managers can extrapolate future results from a well-understood and predictable platform of past experience.” ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. . ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

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. In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. High-tech and high-touch.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 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

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