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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc. Affiliates.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

One tool that I have used to great effect to improve the likelihood of a successful result from digital investments is the benefits dependency network (BDN). This tool seeks to get managers to identify and map all the changes that they will be required to make if expected benefits and outcomes are going to be delivered.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The Silicon Valley giants that gave us social networks, smartphones, and apps have realized the power of those tools to capture the customer data required for hypertargeted marketing. Twitter, for example, recently launched Brand Hub , an analytics tool for large advertisers and medium-sized companies. The Global Digital Economy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Software Brand Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? What is your approach to risk taking, experimentation, and test and learn? Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Nike, once an athletic apparel brand telling stories of athletic solo willpower, has now taken on a systemic nature by introducing brand experiences , such as Nike Plus, Nike Plus Training Club, Nike Plus Running Club, etc. They are now tools that allow people to practice a certain culture or lifestyle. The Physics of Brand Systems.

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.

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Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

It's an interesting time to reach that conclusion because the tools for calculating footprint are evolving fast. That level of sophistication will come with better data and carbon allocation methods (mirroring, I suspect, the cost allocation tools accountants have developed for a century). Do consumers even care?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. Ask yourself: “How can I use digital tools in my business to enhance the fundamental value equation for the customer and build competitive differentiation?” Fabletics is a case in point.

Trends 10

Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 10

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. Using their cellphone data and a social-media tool we tracked their geographical movements and documented exactly where they went and when, compiling a real-time, minute-by-minute, day-by-day, snapshot of what they did.

Fashion 8

Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Penney’s recent announcement that it is resurrecting its print catalog reflects a trend of retailers returning to the print medium as an important sales and marketing tool. Outdoor and apparel retailer L.L.Bean says it is experimenting with the page count of the catalogs it sends to regular website shoppers.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Fashion Apparel 8

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. In some companies, the CIO and CDO are deliberately separate roles.

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

In this approach, new entrant companies (often players from outside healthcare—retail, software, electronics, and apparel) focus on empowering and creating a better experience for consumers by providing detailed, personalized health information and advice. New tools and strategies. ’” Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Almost half of the respondents say that they are requesting tools to manage work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. Five years ago, it was all about “the robots are going to take my job.” ” Now what people are saying is they are demanding automation to help them do their job.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

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.” Market-driven CMOs are great listeners. They’re the empathic advocates for their customers who they serve with diligent purpose.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 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. Microsoft seems more interested in lowering overall carbon emissions and energy use, not just neutrality in and of itself.

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

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. Looking Back — and Forward.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. New tools and strategies. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. As our communications become more digital, our customer relationships become less personal. Insight Center.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

How WhatsApp became a tool for businesses. In Brazil and India , small apparel shops use messaging to alert recurring customers when a new collection has arrived and to share pictures and videos of their products. Small businesses in Brazil have learned to use the platform to engage and interact with customers.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8

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. Ultimately, discovery-driven planning is a set of disciplines and tools that includes the following five steps. You can’t use one tool to handle all problems.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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. I may have to do something more drastic.”

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

2020 demands an authentic approach to marketing, and you can make this possible by leveraging the latest tech tools and emerging channels. In the 21st century, social media forums are a lot more than entertainment tools. These tech-savvy tools are capable of delivering content and helping users with their purchases.

Marketing Strategy 67

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 67

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The good news is that many large retail organizations already have the tools and data they need to craft more effective promotions. For example, our analysis in the men’s apparel category shows that, compared with everyday basics, promotions for in-season fashion items bring significantly more people into stores.

Retail 10

Retail Discount Apparel Price 10

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

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. This may sound a bit far-fetched, and it is still certainly many years out, but there are efforts underway today working to accelerate this coming reality.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

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. Motivating individuals is a hugely underleveraged tool to close the gap between strategy and execution. It just does not work.”

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This holiday-themed product campaign targeted two specific audiences: 1) customers who had previously viewed the holiday-themed apparel and 2) customers with a high affinity toward the product.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

For example, does use of these data-driven tools lower cost and/or enhance customer service? The traditional paradigm for supply-chain management is to develop sophisticated tools to generate forecasts that accurately predict the value and the level of uncertainty of future demand. Why does this matter?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 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 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.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

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.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

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. In fact, 98% of IR500 retailers use some form of web analytics.

Retail 9

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 9

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. Target's way to play emphasizes design-forward apparel and home decor for image-conscious consumers.

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Gut feelings are tools for an uncertain world. But most of economics is not yet prepared to admit that there would be another tool besides expected utility maximization. The same for an apparel business. If you are in a world that’s highly predictable, make it complex. Clearly, in business, that’s a big issue. Less was more.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10