Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2016

Over the course of these long enterprise pursuits, you will be dealing with wide, diverse buyer networks. This diversity in the buyer network is one of the key complexities in enterprise selling and it calls on the selling team to perform the due diligence required to understand the roles and impacts of each of the buyers.

Due Diligence 50

Due Diligence Team Supply Chain Finance 50

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets.

Talent Management 167

Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. Diversity. Randomness, of course, is a prime element of our new business reality. billion hit to earnings). billion hit to earnings).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The best schools have made leadership and interpersonal skills a high priority—Stanford now offers twelve sections of Interpersonal Dynamics to more than 400 students each year, making this labor-intensive course our most popular elective. How well-established are these courses? Of course, alumni networks aren’t created equal.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

In an interview with The HR Digest , Tyszko explains the crucial importance of tapping into hidden talent in new ways and achieving diversity, equality and inclusion goals in 2020. 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?

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

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. Instead of spending years in the classroom to learn an entire subject, give students and workers access to ad hoc courses and certifications. Make more higher education certification-focused.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The same is true in business, and the techniques the military has honed can help executives anticipate problems and change course when necessary. This eliminates or greatly reduces debate when course changes become necessary and urgent. Form diverse, strategic groups. Build situational awareness.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

They cannot chart a future course based on a wide-eyed search for external growth: “There’s an attractive, adjacent market. Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Cosmetic course corrections will not restore trust and credibility. 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. What’s required for a new narrative to be credible? These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The megatrend in demand, of course, is the shift to developing economies. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. Increasingly frequent natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami have made clear how risky complex global supply chains can be.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The longer issues go unaddressed, the higher the price you pay in trust, engagement, decision making, productivity, quality, safety, diversity — you name it. This, of course, was not good for the team or the company. Don’t accuse or attack; simply state what you think is correct. Was that your understanding, Hinata?

How To 11

How To Supply Chain Consultative Rogers 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In South Africa, integrated reporting is a requirement for listed companies on an apply or explain basis and the European Commission passed legislation that will require around 6,000 European entities to disclose on non-financial and diversity information. Why the interest?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Of course companies have distinct quality or R&D departments and professionals, but the most committed companies drive the thinking into every aspect of the business. Of course that's true, since detecting risks and innovating around them will often fall to those closest to the ground (hint, that's rarely the c-suite).

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

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.

Development 9

Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In many and diverse sectors of the global economy, new web-based business models being hatched for the Internet of Things are bringing together market players who previously had no business dealings with each other. We also demonstrated ideas about the near-future of networked living at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We need to respond urgently, and the choices before us range from dramatic course correction on one extreme, to facing "overshoot-and-collapse" on the other. Over the past few decades, countless approaches to course correction have been advanced. The Heart of the Problem. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises.

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They’re reminded that conglomerates with diverse industry focus tend to underperform in their markets (at least in industrialized nations) as compared with focused firms. FedEx isn’t in the business of optimizing supply chain activities using global benchmarks.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The meeting is to provide team members with up-to-date information to run their own departments effectively, to identify and gain diverse perspectives on emerging cross-departmental issues, to align around action plans, and to create clear accountability for action. Is your supply chain performance worrisome? Nothing else.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Formats include both courses and immersion. in their domain is important.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

A 1% transaction fee may not seem like much, but down a 15-step supply chain, it adds up. While it’s hard to imagine a Wal-Mart with the diversity of products offered by Amazon or even eBay, that is the kind of future we are moving into. As a society, we’re experiencing a time of unprecedented technological change.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Equality efforts in the corporate world have not been perfect, but stepping back, it’s clear that there’s a dual logic for companies to jump into public policy: the moral imperative of a workplace without discrimination is intertwined with the reality of running a business catering to diverse customers and employees.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Morale Banking Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Over the course of the evening, 60 people drink red wine and laugh together in the heart of London as they watch an improvisational opera singer sum up the findings of the day: the characteristics of a financial system they would collectively be proud to put their name to. .” Consider this example: the Future of Fish.

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights. CEOs signed a letter to the president-elect that urged him to stay the course on global climate action and building the clean economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8