Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 20, 2017

If you have a supply chain problem, go to the site and record in detail what’s going on. Nat has a Masters of Engineering from Oxford University and studied design, manufacturing and management at Cambridge University, in addition to executive education coursework in Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management program.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. Prior to joining Apollo, he was Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer at BlackRock. CHRO for HSBC. Previously, Mr.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking.

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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. supply chain economy is large and distinct. industries.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Resistance from Within. Let me explain.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets.

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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. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Economic demands place increasing pressure on executive and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety, reliability, and efficiency. For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with… Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2020

With various supply chain issues also emerging in key areas, such as with personal protective equipment, ventilators, and other medical equipment, there has been growing concern that the golden era of globalization might be coming to an end, as countries resort to a more insular, nationalist approach to post-covid life.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Same firm handles radioactive waste at Hanford In this file photo, container management operators at US Ecology Idaho near Mountain Home catalog closed drums filled with various types of hazardous waste in. Source: Topix – Nuclear Energy News Published on 2018-11-20 Explosion kills 1 in Idaho.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

In the past, college graduates would gain employment as automotive industry managers and high school graduates would be well compensated by seeking factory jobs. Engine Charlie's statement has never been more true as we witness the decline of the American automotive industry over the fifty years since his death. .

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

Midway through graduate school, while employed through the summer months in an engineering position, I joined fellow interns in an after-hours outing at a local pub. With our internships coming to an end, we invited our department manager to join us.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2021

If you design for resilience, you’ll be better able to navigate disruptions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Connecting the digital world of research, design, engineering and manufacturing enables a company to drastically reduce the time to introduce new products, leading to faster responses to customer needs and higher engineering productivity. GE now employs 14,000 software engineers. Higher responsiveness leads to higher sales.

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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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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

And they need process owners (who may variously be called VP of Customer Experience, SVP of Supply Chain, Chief Engineer, or Value Stream Leader, for instance) to lead these initiatives. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. They can do it in the following ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

While applications of AI cover a full range of functional areas, it is in fact in these two cross-cutting ones—supply-chain management/manufacturing and marketing and sales—where we believe AI can have the biggest impact, at least for now, in several industries. AI can create $1.4-$2.6

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Out of the many ways that managers get things done, one of the most underused is what I call "convening authority": the ability to bring people together to share information, build alignment, or solve problems. Each meeting was cordial and the managers seemed to appreciate the input.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Whole Foods has tremendous brand equity and a socially responsible supply chain. It has been struggling with its physical footprint — experimenting with smaller stores, reordering its spaces and inventory, and competing with the organic food lines introduced by much larger supermarket chains.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Partner with farmers in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

With the exception of two jet-engine factories and two plants that make heavy equipment, all were located outside the United States. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

That leaves Apple vulnerable to a whole host of supply chains risks (e.g., Moreover, while automated manufacturing may not create a lot of direct factory-floor jobs, it does create high wage jobs for production engineers, skilled maintenance technicians, and managers. Diversify Its Sourcing Footprint. manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. Companies where rival units are consolidating or an executive is leaving should be the first to ask it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

But other companies have managed to thrive long after the departure of their talented founders (GE, IBM, Procter & Gamble, HP until recently). Wozniak brought exceptional engineering chops. Process skills matter, management skills don't. Jobs has been dismissive of "management" skills, and the company has no general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Car dealers and more generally intermediaries represent an extra layer of companies in the supply chain that clearly increases costs to customers. But in many cases they also serve important functions in a supply chain and can create more value than the inefficiencies they cause.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. This will no doubt have profound effects on the workplace. Related Video.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Employing a circular supply chain would help make processes, such as product design, procurement, and waste management, more efficient and productive. Companies like Dell have started establishing closed-loop supply chains to get more value out of the materials in its products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Managements may want to dramatically improve productivity but they're decidedly mixed about comparably increasing their accountability. Of course, engineering design and test should be held accountable, but more sophisticated data-driven analytics makes the cost-driven, compliance-oriented supply chain employee culpable, as well.

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