Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 10, 2013

Smart goals and data-driven assessment help employees and managers map career advancement – Guest post by Danielle M. If certain agents are consistently referring calls to a manager, the metrics may show a need for continued training. studies marketing and supply chain management at the Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis, IN.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Our work will focus on the potential benefits of better management practices across the NHS, education and local government.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

By becoming SQF certified, you’re demonstrating your commitment to providing your supply chain and clients with products of the highest quality. To Broaden Your Market Reach. The top multinational manufacturers and retailers now demand that companies that supply them with products become SQF certified.

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How To Supply Chain Document Licensing 66

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Craft or Career. Decades ago, I was moved by a business school article entitled, “Craft or Career. The author, a professor, was making the point that crafts and careers are not mutually exclusive – that craftspeople do not have to climb the management ladder to realize fulfilling careers. Which Will It Be?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Back in 1983, in a Harvard Business Review article , Peter Kralijc called for the procurement function to take on a larger and more strategic role in managing the supply chain. Thirty years on, sales people in most large companies are still being trained in ways to actually bypass procurement folks in their customer companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Machine learning makes it possible to detect anomalies in the temperature of a train axel that indicate that it will freeze up in the next few hours. Smoother supply chains.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Business schools have realized that it’s not sufficient to provide quantitative and analytical training, because within a few years of leaving school (or even immediately upon graduation) their alumni will add value more through their ability to lead and manage others than through their talents as individual contributors.

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

This phenomenon is what I call the fissured workplace , the cracks upon which today’s economy largely rest, and it leaves so many without fair wages, a career path, or a safe work environment. And while it’s true that low wage workers — an estimated 29 million people in just 10 industries, according to the U.S.

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Compliance Supply Chain Hotels Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Spokespersons were not media-trained, nor media-friendly. Communications. They were secretive and guarded from the beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets. Just as critical are role models and mentors.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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