Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

supply chain is generally recognized as an integral part of the American economy. From Intel’s semiconductors to Microsoft’s enterprise software, the supply chain builds the goods and services that businesses need. economy that reveals new ways to drive American growth and innovation.

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Supply Chain B2C Policies Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In a similar way, industrial companies that combine the digital and the physical open entirely new dimensions in the way they operate and in the value they can provide to customers and shareholders. Both fields require complex and sophisticated domain expertise, and are experiencing fast-paced innovation.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. They had lots of these projects.

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness. Platforms, not processes, make innovations faster and easier to implement.

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Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. Evidently these engines, because they were older, had add-on sensors, not the built-in ones, but the point is the same.).

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth. For great brands, CSV doesn’t simply draw upon the company’s innovation capabilities. Branding Corporate social responsibility'

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

ineffective innovation strategies. failure to fully embed operations in China. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing. Specific factors identified included: failure to cope with a very large number of local competitors. “It’s death by a thousand cuts!”

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Ford mastered mass production of cars with internal combustion engines a century ago. Can the industrial titan reinvent itself in a climate-conscious world?

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Engineering Industry Productivity Products 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? Of course, the pricing is always what signals the problem, but behind that it is how the innovation process is set up. They let evidence and facts drive innovation processes.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer argue that shared value encompasses corporate policies and practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing social and economic conditions in the communities in which it operates. Which of these are impeding growth (or representing untapped markets)?

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 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.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

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.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson (IACS) is exploring revolutionary new cures and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to revive the US production capacity. Innovating the Innovation Process. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Innovate more effectively? Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

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? Innovation in Cities. The threat : Autonomous driving will rely on a digital information backbone to operate. What are the nightmare scenarios of a driverless future?

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Since the courts are about to make a ruling that will profoundly affect its prospects, it might interest you to learn more about how its entire business is engineered to exploit existing copyright law. So what's the real innovation here? First, this service takes full advantage of unchallenged U.S.

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Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In what now seems a distant past, company research facilities like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs fueled innovation and growth for dominant American manufacturing firms. Large firms like Proctor & Gamble can push R&D and product innovation out through their supplier networks. Large firms can also buy smaller ones to acquire new technology.

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Innovation Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. This was delaying product production.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

What follows describes how German manufacturers in particular are rewriting the rules for industry globally on several fronts: Idea to production : It used to be that every new car model required 20 extra hours of work driven by quality issues or purely unplanned changes that its designers and engineers required. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry Automotive Supply Chain Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. “It forces our internal teams to think about innovating faster,” said Mr.

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Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. Water rising — both literally and as a serious issue for business: Honda's supply chain gets slammed, Levi's gets creative. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The committee includes the leaders of its clinical practice committee (the dean and the vice dean for practice); its Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery (a hybrid research-practice center); and its quality, supply chain, analytics, marketing, contracting, systems and procedures, finance, and planning functions.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8