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.

Talent Management 167

Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. One may question the value of these improvement strategies without a system to measure their success effectively.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. All leaders should commit to these actions.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

The agents, middlemen and the whole supply chain related to these services is being disrupted. Design for the Future: Leaders are designers of the systems for the future. Leaders will have to pay equal attention to leveraging diversity and draw on multiple points of views and experiences.

Leadership 70

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.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. 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. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete. Sponsored by Accenture.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. Diversity. Our business systems need leeway for extremes as well. So invest in capturing information and building real-time systems.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2022

At the peak of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, countries around the world scrabbled to try and produce and procure sufficient quantities of medical equipment, such as ventilators, to allow health systems to cope with the deluge of patients. Diverse inputs.

Innovation 98

Innovation Supply Chain Diversity Project 98

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.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

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.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

Team 8

Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Because of this increased diversity and scope of adoption, the learnings are deeper. Upstream participants have access to downstream scheduling systems, and downstream participants can see the flow heading their way. The growth of social technology for sharing and learning.

Operations 15

Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

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. Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Think of how new metering systems and motion sensors suddenly require highly technical skills from contractors, plumbers and electricians. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location. Time and cost constraints limited these options.

Skills 18

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent? That strategy in real-time, or even more aptly, strategy that anticipates and learns.

Strategy 12

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

It encourages executives to apply the dark arts of Machiavelli in order to influence their company’s direction and it offers no guidance to CEOs trying to make their systems generate good ideas and strategies. After all, squaring this circle is precisely what a legal system is supposed to do. There is a Better Way.

Strategy 8

Strategy Teamwork Strategic Planning Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

This is somewhat surprising, given that his management system is very different from those of other publicly traded companies. They represent a diverse mix of insurance and noninsurance subsidiaries of various sizes. Would such a system work in more corporations? Berkshire Hathaway is known for its extreme decentralization.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 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? What are some of the key vulnerabilities of such a new system? — that I hope adds diverse and contrarian thinking to discussions of a driverless future. System Meltdown.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

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

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. Increasingly frequent natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami have made clear how risky complex global supply chains can be. Supply chains and footprints must not only reach all the right places, but they also must be resilient.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Currently in the business world we are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies — a rapid convergence of two very unlike systems that will cause the elements of both to realign. Controlled systems on the one hand are opposed by open communities on the other. It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In South Africa, integrated reporting is a requirement for listed companies on an apply or explain basis and the European Commission passed legislation that will require around 6,000 European entities to disclose on non-financial and diversity information. Why the interest?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent?

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. The board should step out of its traditional focus on governance and compliance and be more involved in setting the corporate value system.

Industry 11

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh makes all too clear, the factory jobs in our global supply chain carry significant risks for the millions of people who fill them — the majority of whom are women under the age of 30. In the corporate arena, compliance systems need to be revised through the lens of gender.

Development 9

Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

People do think about global customers, they do think about global supply chains, but they really don''t think about global talent. Peter Warwick: For organizations to be really successful in the future, they''ve got to think in terms of talent and workforce, as well as capabilities and culture.

Globalization 11

Globalization Supply Chain Marketing Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The meeting is to provide team members with up-to-date information to run their own departments effectively, to identify and gain diverse perspectives on emerging cross-departmental issues, to align around action plans, and to create clear accountability for action. Is your supply chain performance worrisome? Nothing else.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes? How diverse is the planning committee? Do performance measures provide an early warning system for problems? Supply chain management should be implemented. Some try to take advantage of the system. Are budgeting measures used to manage performance?

Strategic Planning 71

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 71

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. A 1% transaction fee may not seem like much, but down a 15-step supply chain, it adds up. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. Together, these diverse players will help governments, companies and communities work together to manage the nexus.

Energy 13

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 13

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

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. Another company planning to boost exports by manufacturing in India is GE. The takeaway.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Decentralization Automotive Globalization 8