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 8

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 8

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). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Owning that entire process meant that the outsourcer not only sold more business to the customer but also could provide it with greater value by identifying challenges in processing and then incorporating the need to address those issues into the technology roadmap.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A five-year-old online clothing retailer, its success in this area reveals how AI and people can work together, with each side focused on its unique strengths. The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 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

JULY 30, 2018

At many of the largest companies, in industries like aerospace and technology, limited budgets are not an obstacle. Many of those lower budgets are in industries that haven’t historically had an R&D department, like retail, hospitality, and financial services. Lack of budget (41% of respondents.).

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 14

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 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. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 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.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

After a terrible fire killed many workers in Bangladesh apparel factories, European retailers Primark and C&A worked to establish long-term compensation funds for victims and their families. Take an Interest. Action could take the form of supporting worker skills training in broader communities.

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

In fact, 98% of IR500 retailers use some form of web analytics. Already, the scale of data collected by early adopters of this technology is staggering. Location analytics firm RetailNext currently tracks more than 500 million shoppers per year by collecting data from more than 65,000 sensors installed in thousands of retail stores.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Retail has been constantly reinventing itself, and participants race to keep up with what feels like a series of epic shifts in consumer preferences. Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. Insight Center.

Apparel 9

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

That “little” privately-held business has grown tremendously since its launch and currently has more than 90 physical retail locations and a highly successful eCommerce business. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Starbucks is just one of many companies using this type of technology, and it’s not hard to understand why. As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. on Saturdays.

Software 8

Software Management Retail How To 8

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). China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

It was Schultz who famously said “You can walk into [any type of retail store] and you can feel whether the proprietor or the merchant or the person behind the counter has a good feeling about his product. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

Technology companies have done this particularly well. Disney's business models span the media, entertainment, toy, apparel, and travel industries. We believe more consumer facing companies beyond technology and media will adopt MBM going forward, and that single business model companies in many industries will find it hard to compete.

Business Model 9

Business Model Advertising Retail Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. There are some notable exceptions in industries such as online apparel retailing, where companies can view real-time, customer-purchase decisions (e.g., Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

“Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. “FOX Sports has always been about fans first,” says Tom Zentmeyer, Vice President, Technology and Games at FOX Sports. “It’s tribal. ” Read More from Microsoft.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Deep concerns about labor conditions, wages, and equity take root: From tragedies in Bangladeshi apparel factories to minimum wages in the U.S. Travesties like the death of more than 1100 workers at the Rana Plaza apparel factory in Bangladesh are increasingly unacceptable to the buying public. So what’s really new this year?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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 18, 2012

The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. New capital is still flowing to the clean tech — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and some other business leaders just announced a $1 billion fund to invest in “next generation energy technologies.”

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., It’s important to note that the representation of Democrats on risk committees is disproportionately high.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8