HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson and in global logistics. 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.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

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.

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. In it, he focused on the in-built problem that faces a successful company which is doing the ‘right thing’ by obsessing over their loyal customers to the exclusion of others.

Innovation 104

Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. manufacturing companies, defined as firms that have their headquarters in the United States, responded. companies responded that they were “definitively” planning to do so.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. The long-term is here today.” -- Blair Sheppard, Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership for the PwC network and author of, Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. The pandemic and its impacts are unfortunately not over.

How To 94

How To Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 94

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.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. The long-term is here today.” -- Blair Sheppard, Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership for the PwC network and author of, Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. The pandemic and its impacts are unfortunately not over.

How To 65

How To Leadership Uncertainty Long-term 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We’re learning more about how employee wants are very diverse. The long-term is here today.” -- Blair Sheppard, Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership for the PwC network and author of, Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. The pandemic and its impacts are unfortunately not over.

Leadership 65

Leadership Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 65

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. With opportunities abound, employees are “volunteers” who have global choices. First, let us look at these shifts.

Leadership 70

Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all. Our global narrative of progress, the implicit case for embracing change in exchange for its fruits, is being increasingly called into question by economically marginalized groups and populist politicians across the globe.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

But for most rising executives, leading successfully in global markets is easier said than done. Recently, I spoke with Linda Sharkey , an author and expert in global leadership development and culture change, to chat with me about this issue. Think about Disney when they first tried to go global in the 1990s. How about you?

Globalization 13

Globalization Beyer Supply Chain Open-book 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

More and more, companies are building long-term commitments to corporate social responsibility. In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

” the CEO of a major global corporation asked me recently. Companies keep trying to show the world that they are socially conscious and keep losing the battle. investors who ultimately determine the company’s value and fate. investors who ultimately determine the company’s value and fate.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The global manufacturing sector is on the threshold of a dynamic new phase that will provide renewed opportunity for manufacturing firms — and a host of new challenges. We see two forces that will dominate global manufacturing in the coming decade. These forces will shift the dynamics of the global manufacturing sector.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Tough Supply-Chain Choices. Suddenly, companies and consumers across the world are finding themselves in a moral quandary: How can you make (or purchase) clothing cheaply without compromising supply-chain ethics? One company, however, had decided to leave Bangladesh prior to the collapse: Disney.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Letter Globalization 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

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.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

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.

Diversity 40

Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

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. The longer the time horizon, the more appealing many aspects of ESG, as mentioned above.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. Upskilling need not be a path out of the company or industry, but a means of advancing within it.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

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. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

CEO 8

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.

Diversity 52

Diversity Agility Supply Chain Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in. In addition, the many tools from the various methodologies (such as Lean and Six Sigma) are being combined by smart companies into a standard process toolkit. But improvement has improved.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

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.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Many companies, big and small, are examining their own commitments to sustainability in light of America’s shift. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy?

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

At the heart of the Denver-based company’s crisis was the ever-present problem faced by companies that depend on multiple suppliers to deliver parts and ingredients: a lack of transparency and accountability across complex supply chains.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

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?

Diversity 52

Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

As companies expand globally, it''s even more crucial to understand the differences between professionals in different markets. People do think about global customers, they do think about global supply chains, but they really don''t think about global talent.

Globalization 10

Globalization Supply Chain Marketing Ethics 10

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. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

As a society, we must figure out how to rapidly re-skill vast number of people on an ongoing basis to both remain relevant globally and to avoid long periods of high unemployment. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Together, these two companies are bridging the divide between personal health data that’s collected in a clinical setting, and data that’s collected by the patient.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” These could include a controlled global supply chain, unique abilities to test compounds, proprietary communication channels with key constituents, unique manufacturing machinery, etc. In companies, an outside-in perspective can help shape an honest view of your organization’s strengths (and weaknesses).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

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. A Levi Strauss & Company supplier in Egypt saw a 4:1 ROI from the program, for example.

Development 9

Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. in Latin America.

P&L 256

P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In fact, they date back to GM’s Alfred Sloan , who brought together a handful of business unit (BU) leaders to address company-wide issues. This model of a small, BU-leader-staffed team was the model for many decades, although some companies named a COO to act as an intermediary between the CEO and the BU leaders.

Execution 8

Execution Team Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

But in the report " Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point ," MIT and BCG prove their point with a fast-rising graph of companies that recently put sustainability "on the management agenda.". I've seen it time and again in the companies that I work with or study. But most companies are missing a big step.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? No company is yet an exemplar of setting and activating strategy in the way we envision it. To what extent?

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8