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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. You can watch the webinar here. Thesara Jayawardane CMgr FCMI, Graeme La Brooy FCMI and Niroshan Peiris MCMI.

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How Can Businesses Navigate Asia's Increasingly Complex Supply Chain Systems?

Harvard Business Review

In this HBR webinar, Supply chain thought leaders Hau Lee , Tom Linton , Jonathan Wright , and Kerry Mok discuss strategies for navigating Asia's supply chain.

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Is Your Supply Chain Flexible Enough to Meet Disaster?

Harvard Business Review

Countless companies have reconfigured their supply chains to reflect the latest strategy, only to discover that committing to these "best practices" exposed them to unexpected risks later. MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi says companies need find new ways of managing their supply chains by using a segmentation strategy.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

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?

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How Can Big Data and Analytics Spur Innovation in New Markets?

Harvard Business Review

In Asia, the applications are endless: Forecasting the revenues of a new business unit; pinpointing bottlenecks in the regional supply chain; even searching for niches in unwieldy consumer markets. Global business'

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Investors' aversion to physical-product start-ups is understandable — the two recent asset-bubble-induced recessions proved that these companies' need for materials, supply chains, distribution networks, and labor hampers them from responding quickly to sudden declines in sales.

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The Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". The full Webinar is available here.