HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It’s not hard to imagine that one of the largest online retailers in the world is exempt from workplace controversies. In a dramatic turn of events, the retail giant has announced it will pay frontline workers a one-time holiday bonus of up to $300. Retail giants Walmart and Target have also paid holiday bonuses to their workers.

Retail 52

Retail Policies Incentives Software 52

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Most companies are not taking advantage of that data to improve marketing.

Innovation 210

Innovation Strategy Competitive Advantage Incubator 210

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2012

This month’s Fast Company names the 100 Most Creative People in Business, with an emphasis on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television and sports. The former head of Apple’s retail operations believes the ability to change is the key to success. 4 Ron Johnson – CEO JCPenney.

Creativity 238

Creativity Advertising Belief Systems Storytelling 238

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The more people you could cluster together, the more diverse the range of experiences they could blend together, the greater the local market for any products those people might deliver, and the greater resources that would be available to help them do so. For many years, innovation was thought to be a matter of agglomeration.

Real Estate 95

Real Estate Transportation Industry Innovation 95

Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you’re employed in a technology-first corporation, oversee operations in a retail chain or run a healthcare organization, every sector demands effective leadership. Define Objectives Say, for example, you have a goal to become the most reputable clothes retailer in your city.

Leadership Development 52

Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Technology has become increasingly critical for businesses in recent years, and it offers company bosses the chance to streamline and speed up operations, reduce the risk of errors and introduce cost-effective ways of working. Streamlining your marketing strategy. Flexible staffing options.

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing ROI Marketing Strategy Short-term 52

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

For those organizations who have gender-balanced boards, data is striking: Since 2005, publicly traded companies with more than one women on their boards have seen stock market returns of a compound 3.7 She adds, "Although the issue is one of diversity, it's different and must be specifically addressed." Keep your female talent.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

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. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

Supply Chain 58

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Zappos , retail. Producer: owned by producers of commodities or crafts who have joined forces to process and market their products.

Organization 62

Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. 100 COACHES.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

How diverse is the planning committee? Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Product-service movement at retail levels. Inventory costs.

Strategic Planning 82

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 82

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Nimble digital competitors are showing growth that the largest consumer goods and retail companies are not, for multiple reasons.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Business Model Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. Marketing activities today generate unprecedented amounts of data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

While scaling your business can be challenging, there are plenty of ways to improve business operations, increase sales, and boost profits within your company. However, multichannel retail and distribution can lead to several difficulties such as wasted stock, overselling, and customer complaints. Hire a social media manager.

Strategy 10

Strategy Customer Loyalty Loyalty Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

Brand 51

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 51

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression.

Ethics 62

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure.

Execution 69

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 69

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Africa shows every sign of being the world’s next big growth market. It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. lucydphoto/Getty Images. billion by 2050. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

For example, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) built a leading 40% share of the Chinese fast food market through patiently tailoring its product offering to local tastes and building a strong team of local managers. And fortunes can reverse quickly if managers don't progress their multicultural understanding as markets continue to evolve.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. tyler garrison/Getty Images.

Resistance 8

Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Improve the experience in your retail locations or call centers. This strategy makes perfect sense, and it aligns nicely with the way your company is probably organized — with the website, retail locations, and contact centers each in their neat little silo. Retailers Turn to "Soft Surveillance" to Fight Customer Anonymity.

Retail 15

Retail Call Center Strategy Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

However, we’ve discovered the need for an approach that falls somewhere between the two—to explore the customer value proposition and market appeal of a concept in the more turbulent and distracting context of the live market, but without full investment in a pilot. We call this approach “live prototyping.”.

Retail 8

Retail Focus Group Brand Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. In addition, they possess two key traits: Deep operational experience. Coco and Beaird relish talking operations with line managers.

Human Resources 13

Human Resources Operations Compliance Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients. Add to Cart.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. One idea we retained from GE was to celebrate diversity. Find ways to have fun.

Management 8

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. Operations. It also took into account their roles in changing patient behavior.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal.

Industry 9

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. The market for renewables is growing fast. No wonder HSBC says the market for clean tech and climate change solutions will top $2.2 trillion by 2020.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

A surprising thing happened during a recent brainstorming session I led for a retail client. We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. I was stunned. Customers Branding'

Brand 8

Brand Reis Objective Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 9

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 9