Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

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. Another indication that near-shoring is accelerating is the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The MIT Forum launched an online survey in 2012 to understand what U.S. A value of 50.0

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Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

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.

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Due Diligence Team Supply Chain Finance 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. A classic example is Google, which has continuously exemplified high-functioning governance and performance optimization.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

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. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

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. That would be the result of people not being able to get into work safely or not having inputs arrive.” billion hit to earnings).

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

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. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. One strategy is to take the team approach to cross-pollinate and commingle the required skillsets; bringing together a diversity of skills and backgrounds from within your organization to achieve a common goal is a highly effective method.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. Because of this increased diversity and scope of adoption, the learnings are deeper. Today, greater access to information makes the management of end-to-end processes easier, especially those that cut across organizational boundaries.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

According to Fay Feeney, CEO of Risk for Good, "Boardrooms will see CSR issues presented to them in many ways: reputations risks, ESG proxy, political spending, hydraulic fracturing, natural resource management, supply chain, board diversity and more.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

Does your business entail supply management on a large scale? Perhaps you would like to consider improving your current processes , employing better supply management practices, and adopting modern technology. Yes, the same practice you’ll find in vehicle registration also works great with supply management.

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Licensing Supply Chain Constraint Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

election and Brexit are only the most recent examples of the pervasive, burgeoning importance to corporations of business-in-society issues. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

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. The HR Digest: You have been critical in pushing for progress in diversity & inclusion (D&I) in the workforce.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

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. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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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. . How did you manage these challenges?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. As corporations rethink their global supply chains and business models, creating ecosystems of suppliers and aspiring entrepreneurs could be part of the solution.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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? That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, recently said , “Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors relevant to a company’s business can provide essential insights into management effectiveness and thus a company’s long-term prospects.” had a diversity metric.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, what if a new competitor enters the market earlier than expected? ” These could include a controlled global supply chain, unique abilities to test compounds, proprietary communication channels with key constituents, unique manufacturing machinery, etc. Form diverse, strategic groups.

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Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups). Strategy-making can now happen in real time. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups). Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. 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.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

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). In these past few years, you also implemented?several?strategic

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Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

This is only one of countless examples of the problem with most corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts these days. A few years ago the West Coast hamburger chain Carl’s Jr. launched a “Pink Star Campaign” to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Consumers aren’t falling for the trick.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 10

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. Its advocates say it will take the internet’s empowering potential to its next level.

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Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

A change began to occur in the 1970s as functional managers slowly joined BU leaders and COOs on the top team. In the 2000s, the number of Chief Supply Chain Officers in large firms shot up in several industries, while the “War for Talent” spurred companies to add Chief Talent Officers to their benches.

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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.". In GreenBiz's annual review of 20 indicators of "how business is doing" on green, we learn that 6 of those indicators are on a downward trend.

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Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. A study undertaken by researchers from the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. My own company, for example, the Bosch Group, produces over half a million things each day across more than 1,500 product categories.)

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Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

People do think about global customers, they do think about global supply chains, but they really don''t think about global talent. People are much more confident about managing the change and not simply being the victims of it. Global business Talent management' Did anything in your survey results really surprise you?

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Marketing Ethics 9

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.

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Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

My favorite example was a Corporate Affairs team that had an ambitious agenda to work collaboratively to transform the perception of the organization among members of the public, the regulator, and three levels of government. I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process.

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Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example. getting investors to think long-term) or to modify the interaction between the for-profit firm and its stakeholders (e.g.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

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. Project management skills. A mastery of project management skills is a must.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel. Leveraging India’s Supply Chain. For example, Hindustan Unilever has over 7,000 distributors in India.

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