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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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AI Is Getting Good Enough to Delegate the Work It Can’t Do

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that the results are much better when humans are removed from the decision-making process. Now, algorithms make the decisions and instruct humans throughout the supply chain on which products to make, in what quantities, and where to deliver them. VirtuOz is far from the only technology delegating to humans.

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Thinking Through How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. Start with the work, not the “job” or the technology. For example, RPA will seldom replace the entire “job” of a call center representative.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Sponsored by DXC Technology. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Human capital. Insight Center.