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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

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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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking.

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What’s Your Time Worth? Why Pricing Matters

N2Growth Blog

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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When the Jobs Go Away, They Take Your DNA

Harvard Business Review

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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Uber-Style Talent Poaching Happens in All Industries

Harvard Business Review

.” The interesting thing here is not so much the question of whether Uber should curb its aggressive recruitment, but the phenomenon that, for all companies, strategic success increasingly depends on competitive advantage in talent markets as much as in product, service, and brand markets.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business Review

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks.

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