HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The greatest change seen is in remote work operations. ThoughtWorks Chief Operating Officer, Saptorsi Hore said that clients have gradually become more comfortable in their support of remote working, and the organization sees a dramatic shift in their expectation of flexibility in post-covid work trends. Remote Work.

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

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. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

Supply Chain 57

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. While I agree, I nonetheless believe that the slowdown is due, in part, to an acceleration of “near-shoring,” the practice of producing closer to the customer.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To overcome challenges of scale, the company pairs new and veteran suppliers in formal mentoring relationships.

Diversity 20

Diversity Mentor Company Supply Chain 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Because of this increased diversity and scope of adoption, the learnings are deeper. But improvement has improved.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. Diversity. billion hit to earnings). billion hit to earnings). Redundancy and buffers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Adaptability is one of the mainsprings of diversity. While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Shannon Schuyler, Chief Purpose Officer of PwC, is already hard to work developing the one asset she feels will help ensure deep-level diversity and inclusion throughout the organization.

Diversity 40

Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). 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.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly every major company today operates a broad set of social and environmental activities that parallel its commercial value chain. Employees at every level can see and take pride in the way their company’s new products, strategies, and operational choices advance a clear social purpose. Nike is about fitness.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

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. The longer the time horizon, the more appealing many aspects of ESG, as mentioned above.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain.

Team 8

Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

And Coca-Cola’s 5by20 initiative which empowers female entrepreneurs in developing countries to operate neighborhood stores that sell its products and create an upward spiral of economic development. So instead of using design to justify higher prices as most companies do, IKEA operates in exactly the opposite way.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

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.

Licensing 50

Licensing Supply Chain Constraint Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation. And what type of leadership will take us there?

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

But it’s still crucial to make sense of the environments in which we operate and foresee how different factors will affect our decisions. ” These could include a controlled global supply chain, unique abilities to test compounds, proprietary communication channels with key constituents, unique manufacturing machinery, etc.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

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.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. In my first job after business school I interacted with a very diverse range of communities, and while I never misled anyone about the fact that I had an MBA, I didn’t advertise it either.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Compare this number to the slowest growth categories — Postal Service Mail Carriers and switchboard operators — where the majority of positions (up to 82 percent) are classified as low-skilled, and you can sense a real problem. If workers are anxious about this shift, so are employers.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

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

Diversity 52

Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. We see advances in materials, processes, and information technology that will make possible entirely new kinds of products and can radically alter how manufacturers operate. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. in Latin America.

P&L 256

P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations. For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Executives in search of a system of strategic planning and development that is both organized and rule-based but open to diverse perspectives, conflict, and argumentation could do a lot worse than borrow from the Law. The same, we believe, is true for corporations. A few examples: Customer Service VPs are supposed to keep customers happy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Teamwork Strategic Planning Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

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. CFOs were the first functional chiefs to join, followed in the 1980s by Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs). Balance your inner cabinet.

Execution 8

Execution Team Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Who doesn’t want to live in a future free from congestion, collisions, and pollution from combustion engines and the petroleum supply chain? — that I hope adds diverse and contrarian thinking to discussions of a driverless future. The threat : Autonomous driving will rely on a digital information backbone to operate.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8