Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Cue the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, roll the reel of the good-looking diverse people of the company, and unleash the balloons. There’s a lot going on here: This leader is visionary, ambitious, goal-oriented, and motivational.

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Strategy Supply Chain Leadership Case Study 282

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

. “Since the onset of COVID-19, the business world has experienced a tumultuous journey marked by economic disruptions, including shutdowns, a dynamic rebound, supply chain challenges, and a fiercely competitive talent market,” Horton notes.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A streamlining of roles with a smooth supply chain and workflow created cost efficiencies, but the pandemic showed up the model’s fragility. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. Transition from designing for efficiency to designing for resilience.

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Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Heart First is engaging, inspirational and packed with powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. David is so in tune with providing timely, critical, actionable advice, how-to’s and tips for leaders. It’s a book you’ll want to read and then refer to time after time.

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Supply Chain Leadership Meyer Open-book 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I selected this book because the book is easy-to-read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Plus, it covers today’s pertinent topics for workplace leaders, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture.

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 65

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Good marketers, and particularly researchers, tackle business problems by directly challenging the core beliefs around the ‘consumer reality’ of a brand—which are very often based on either outmoded, unrealistic or simply wishful thinking. Be aware of cultural signals and market dynamics. So…think like Rene Descartes.

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Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

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

The last few weeks have brought news of turmoil in China, including currency devaluations, an economic slowdown, and a stock market plunge. My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. PMI was 51.1 in August and 52.7 in August from 52.3

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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

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. The diversity of species naturally cycles nutrients, protects the soil, and manages insect populations. In a forest ecosystem, no intervention is needed.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

AIMMS , supply chain analytics. Producer: owned by producers of commodities or crafts who have joined forces to process and market their products. Publix Super Markets , more than 50 percent employee-owned. Profitability is still important, but purpose, ownership, community, and diversity carry significance too.

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Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker! Catch up here.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Further, it’s also crucial to prioritize stakeholder engagement, as their diverse insights often yield invaluable directives for the drive toward excellence. Financial metrics, such as return on investment (ROI), profitability, growth rates, and market share, provide insight into the monetary impact of the governance improvements.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Marketers are getting increasingly sophisticated at tapping into those strong emotions, and they don’t need a full-length feature film to do it. So how do marketers go from 0 to tears in 30 seconds? The difference between any particularly emotional story and a good marketing story is that a marketing story has a purpose.

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Marketing Storytelling Brand Supply Chain 14

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. The agents, middlemen and the whole supply chain related to these services is being disrupted. Leaders will have to pay equal attention to leveraging diversity and draw on multiple points of views and experiences.

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Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

The sheer diversity of companies entering the online shopping space, coupled with the evolving segmentation of the e-commerce model, renders the traditional definition of e-commerce obsolete. For this to happen, marketers in CPGs need to learn to think like e-commerce marketers and apply our deep consumer knowledge in a new, digital context.

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Supply Chain Company Retail Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

A diverse, cross-functional team is assembled to solve it. We’re here to solve the supply chain problem” or “we’re here to build a new product.” For example, when your team inevitably has to choose between the lowest cost solution and the speed-enhancing solution for the supply chain, which objective wins?

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Supply Chain Cost-Benefit Analysis How To Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Cause-Marketing: Cause-marketing programs will multiply. Cause-marketing provides businesses with legitimacy, along with a partner that has issue expertise. Marketing experts agree. According to a PRWeek/Barkely PR Cause Survey in 2010, two-thirds of brands now engage in cause marketing, up from 58% in 2009.

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

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.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action. High-performing marketing organizations have developed a more agile style of working to keep their brands competitive amid rapid marketplace shifts.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

While Narendra Modi’s “Make In India ” initiative to promote manufacturing in India was mocked by some , North American executives are increasingly looking to expand their manufacturing supply chains beyond China. India was one of the first expansion markets for Abbott, after Canada and the U.K,

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Supply Chain Decentralization Automotive Globalization 8

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.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

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

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As a coach I have two different “markets”—my students at Stanford and my private clients, who are primarily senior leaders, and in both settings my degree sends a useful signal. So ask yourself: What market am I in now? What markets might I seek to enter in the future? How are MBAs perceived in these markets?

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Westend61/Getty Images. Insight Center. Sponsored by Splunk.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In a globalized economy, these challenges arise from pervasive, at times catastrophic, issues in international business: cronyism, antitrust, and labor issues, as well as trade, the environment, taxes, and supply chains.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The assigned plates determine the batch/unit, and it improves the efficiency of your warehouse operations, streamlining inventory transfer within the supply chain. Imagine this: you’ve been managing your supply the same way throughout the years. Say for example you have a diverse supply to take care of.

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Licensing Supply Chain Constraint Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. 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. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

But for most rising executives, leading successfully in global markets is easier said than done. She described some of the common traps that new leaders working in overseas markets can fall into: The Mirror Trap. In essence, Nestle Japan acted like a local provider in a local market. 2) Review your team.

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Globalization Beyer Supply Chain Open-book 13

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Plus, it covers today’s pertinent topics for workplace leaders, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture.

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 103

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

had a diversity metric. After five years, the company is well ahead of schedule, leading it to expand its commitment by reducing emissions along its entire supply chain. But for those that are ready for the concrete commitment, it can pay off in long-term market leadership. It’s not for every company.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, what if a new competitor enters the market earlier than expected? What if they are delayed; what types of things might they do to try to recover and penetrate the market more quickly? Form diverse, strategic groups. What could they do that would surprise and/or outmaneuver us?

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Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds. Plus, it covers today’s pertinent topics for workplace leaders, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture.

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Books Leadership Open-book Supply Chain 105