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. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

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).

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Having founded a data management company and worked with hundreds of organizations over the past 20 years to execute their information management and analytics initiatives, I’ve found the groups that are able to successfully utilize their company’s analytics technologies often take the following approaches: Build a team.

Team 8

Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 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. 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

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.

Licensing 50

Licensing Supply Chain Constraint Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Information & technology Leadership Strategy'

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. The same goes for technology. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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 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

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. The leading companies are getting out in front of this trend.

Resources 53

Resources Industry System Strategy 53

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). All of this enabled through our technology and the passion and expertise of our employees.

Diversity 52

Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

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? Huge real-world challenges still exist to the wide adoption of the technology, but let’s say for a moment we get all this working, and our cities become flooded by driverless vehicles.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 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

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. They’re reminded that conglomerates with diverse industry focus tend to underperform in their markets (at least in industrialized nations) as compared with focused firms.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

First, emissions from food and agriculture stem from a diverse and complicated mixed bag of sources, including clearing land for grazing or crops (often burning trees and releasing the CO2), direct energy use on farms, fertilizer production, and methane from rice fields and from animals (mostly burps).

Goal 8

Goal Industry Consensus Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. If the process of using an ATM had been invented today, with the blockchain as a state-of-the-art database technology as an option, we would most likely not need an administrative entity like VISA to manage the process. Distributed Database. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

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. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. vulnerable to rare earth shortages."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

This technological and logistical challenge is made all the harder by the fact that by 2030, we'll be confronting a water supply shortage of approximately 40 percent due to a toxic combination of rising demand and climate-change-driven shifts in water supply. These issues create collective risks that cannot be managed in silos.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

HR Digest

JUNE 1, 2023

A New Era for IKEA IKEA’s digital transformation began when the company hired Barbara Martin Coppola, a seasoned technology executive with experience at Google, Samsung, and Texas Instruments. This required a complete overhaul of the flow of goods, supply mechanisms, and store floorplans.

Retail 52

Retail Supply Chain Agility Ethics 52

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.

FOB 8

FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 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. But even without those technological shifts, the five megatrends here create an overwhelming case to continue the sustainability journey.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8