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

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Implementing new strategies driven by advanced technology contributes significantly to organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Further, it’s also crucial to prioritize stakeholder engagement, as their diverse insights often yield invaluable directives for the drive toward excellence.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? 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. Catch up here.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. With advances in technology, mobiles are becoming more of a convergence device that replaces so many utilities (calculators, alarm clocks, small digital cameras etc.) First, let us look at these shifts. that we used otherwise.

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Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

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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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 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.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

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.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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. And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

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 11

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

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

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. Imagine this: you’ve been managing your supply the same way throughout the years.

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Licensing Supply Chain Constraint Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. 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. It’s not for every company.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

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 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. That was the point of his famous requirement that every business had to be No.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These high-growth jobs focus on the science, health and business fields — positions like biochemists, market research analysts and occupational therapists are set to skyrocket over the next decade. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

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. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology.

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Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. In other words, the focus understandably centers on measurably improving the perceived core competence—selling better, manufacturing better, marketing better, hiring even better talent, cutting costs better. A provocative—possibly apocryphal—story has the late C.K.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. We found, alas, that FOB boards trailed behind non-FOB boards on diversity. Director Profiles.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 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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Supply Chain Mentor Stress Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. Intensity and immediacy of impact.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. We need to mark our information assets to market or depreciate them as they become obsolete. Sometime soon, the world around us will be smart.

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Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. By competing on products, we respond to the market. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

A study undertaken by researchers from the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. In many and diverse sectors of the global economy, new web-based business models being hatched for the Internet of Things are bringing together market players who previously had no business dealings with each other.

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Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

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. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g., in their domain is important.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights. In essence, companies that don’t continue the sustainability journey are going to fall behind and become uncompetitive in global markets.

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Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8