HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Walmart, discusses the world’s largest retailer’s priorities when selecting future leadership pipeline, and why companies who hire a diverse talent do better than others. This is an extraordinary achievement, but for many companies, this is still a novel idea.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

“Since the onset of COVID-19, the business world has experienced a tumultuous journey marked by economic disruptions, including shutdowns, a dynamic rebound, supply chain challenges, and a fiercely competitive talent market,” Horton notes. employees (47%) experiencing it.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Richard Rumelt has written an insightful book on developing the ability to identify and develop good strategy. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is obviously the result of decades of practice developing strategy and the many case studies and classroom interactions made it personal and very readable. We’ve all been there.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains. As the scale and scope of our company have expanded over the years, so has our focus on taking meaningful steps to improve the world in which we live. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. The new reality was that companies needed to adopt nonstandard work models. It says there will be a similar acceleration of M&A and nationalization of companies post-covid.

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Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. The number of senior company personnel who see things as they’d like them to be, rather than as they really are, is quite extraordinary. Industries are being upended.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? You can learn more in FE News.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. As leaders, we must continually find ways to lift ourselves out of the day-to-day and keep an eye towards macro-economic trends, possible disruptions towards supply chains, changes in customer behavior, and employee morale. and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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How To Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 94

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Starting a business, let alone a beverage company, as an undergraduate was not something I had planned on doing. Runa is a now vertically integrated beverage company that creates livelihoods for indigenous Amazonian farmers. The diversity of species naturally cycles nutrients, protects the soil, and manages insect populations.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Different business models can create more activating dynamics for individuals and teams within companies and organizations. AIMMS , supply chain analytics. Concern for community: Cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies approved by their members. Employee-owned Companies.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. As leaders, we must continually find ways to lift ourselves out of the day-to-day and keep an eye towards macro-economic trends, possible disruptions towards supply chains, changes in customer behavior, and employee morale. and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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How To Leadership Uncertainty Long-term 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. As leaders, we must continually find ways to lift ourselves out of the day-to-day and keep an eye towards macro-economic trends, possible disruptions towards supply chains, changes in customer behavior, and employee morale. and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Leadership Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 65

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. The agents, middlemen and the whole supply chain related to these services is being disrupted. Develop People: Leadership in the new world is beyond external tags and titles. First, let us look at these shifts.

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Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Adaptability is one of the mainsprings of diversity. While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Shannon Schuyler, Chief Purpose Officer of PwC, is already hard to work developing the one asset she feels will help ensure deep-level diversity and inclusion throughout the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. But in some companies, strategists are bolder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh makes all too clear, the factory jobs in our global supply chain carry significant risks for the millions of people who fill them — the majority of whom are women under the age of 30. Access to professional development and advancement opportunities.

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Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. Or how about China's unparalleled (and some would say illegal) support for its renewables companies , which has the World Trade Organization fretting about trade barriers ? China, China, China.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. What’s your sense of what companies can do to foster a deeper sense of learning within teams while also providing clarity of purpose to keep them on course?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

government leaders, sustainability is getting more and more attention at American companies. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location. An Economist Intelligence Unit survey of more than 350 executives from multinational companies reinforces this notion. Encourage the development of talent ecosystems.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. Insight Center. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Sponsored by Splunk. Seek creativity and curiosity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Apparently the struggling department store company, which is closing 33 underperforming stores and incurred a net loss of nearly $500 million in its last reported quarter, felt it was important to promote a report detailing its sustainability activities. Even well-run, well-intentioned companies get it wrong.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. As a result, more companies are being valued based on their current earnings than on their growth potential. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S. A salient example is the inside counsel revolution of the past 20 years.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Mary Hasset shared how ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ is being firmly anchored into Lam Research’s philosophy, how the company is bridging the diversity gap in executive leadership, and shed light on the upcoming Inclusion Index. . Leading Through the Unexpected.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It’s vital to find weaknesses in your strategies before you implement them — and developing a rigorous process to do so. To develop better situational awareness, start by forming teams and tasking them to develop alternatives based on different views of the same situation. Develop an outside-in perspective.

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Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Further, some of the world’s biggest companies are family-owned—News Corp, Samsung, Tata Group, and Walmart to name but a few—and more than a third of Fortune 500 companies are family-owned. Director Profiles. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Recently, I spoke with Linda Sharkey , an author and expert in global leadership development and culture change, to chat with me about this issue. They rendered the global power of the company useless because they could no longer leverage Nestle's massive supply chain or brands. 2) Review your team. How about you?

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

Dawn Jones, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Vice President of Social Impact, Intel, is not short on ambition. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Intel continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). How do you measure the value these programs bring to the company?

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Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? Strategy-making can now happen in real time. To what extent?

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Those on the call had been tasked with taking 15% out of their cost structure, to help the company survive the impending revenue famine. The longer issues go unaddressed, the higher the price you pay in trust, engagement, decision making, productivity, quality, safety, diversity — you name it. You and Your Team Series.

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