Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We all experience the extra challenges, stresses and anxiety brought on by this pandemic – in addition to the regular stresses of life. Instead, the most important thing a leader can do in times of volatility and stress is to lead with compassion. COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. It affects every person from executive to staff.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We all experience the extra challenges, stresses and anxiety brought on by this pandemic – in addition to the regular stresses of life. Instead, the most important thing a leader can do in times of volatility and stress is to lead with compassion. COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. It affects every person from executive to staff.

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Leadership Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 65

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Reserved your spot?

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chris Brogan, author, keynote speaker, Chief of Staff to the CEO of Appfire, and an all-around good guy, began a practice in 2006 that I’ve always admired. It’s called My Three Words. I have not always adopted it consistently over the years, but when I have, I found it to be everything Chris suggests it […].

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Magazine CEO Supply Chain Talent Management 122

CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As someone who spends most of his time working in a language that is not my mother tongue, I’m aware I spend perhaps more time than most considering the meanings of words. It’s always interesting to me how different aspects of the same idea are illuminated by the names we give them. As a CEO […].

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Magazine CEO Supply Chain Talent Management 115

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In his speech at COP21 European Union Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs, and Fisheries Karmenu Vella stressed the need to switch to a more circular economy. Employing a circular supply chain would help make processes, such as product design, procurement, and waste management, more efficient and productive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Looked at in this light, the terrible delay in finding Flight 370 can be seen as a failure of management practice to keep up with new technology. My take on this lapse is that there’s a gap between the power of IoT technology, and management’s ability to conceive strategies to capitalize on it, which I refer to as “IoT Thinking.”

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

While it’s easy to think that vast technology-enabled networks aren’t as real or valuable as the old-fashioned, face-to-face variety, research doesn’t support that view. Do you need some examples of where a new technology is being used to bolster your business case? No problem — your network can help.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, it was assumed that conventional oil reserves would be developed by national oil companies and major oil and gas companies to supply virtually all of the world’s oil demand. But even these countries could come under stress in the next decade if they continue to follow their status quo.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Ken Powell, the CEO of General Mills says “human-caused greenhouse gas causes climate change and climate volatility and that’s going to stress the agricultural supply chain ” — as in, the system that feeds us. Leading CEOs are seeing the work to manage climate change as a strategic and human imperative.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Collaborations among energy producers and users, for example, can help scale technologies such as solar PV and wind power that require only negligible amounts of water.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

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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. What exactly is an analytics translator? Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Simply put, business is the 800-pound gorilla where this issue is concerned: 80% of global trade is orchestrated by supply chains of multinational firms. Subsidiarity itself can be seen as just one of a range of approaches that stress selectivity in terms of pursuing initiatives that require cross-border coordination.

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