Decker Communication

AUGUST 3, 2023

Given the speed of AI-driven innovation, it’s clear that tech companies of all sizes are having a tough time getting their AI stories to resonate with buyers. When companies first considered migrating data and processes to the cloud, few feared that the cloud might eliminate their jobs as a prelude to destroying humanity. Magic, yes.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Gutenberg gets credit, for example, for making the Reformation possible. . Soon there was a whole supply chain dedicated to creating, producing, distributing, and selling books. It’s hard to imagine the American Revolution, for example, without the newspapers, pamphlets, and books that spread important ideas. .

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s also difficult for retailers to monitor supply and demand in real-time. “Any store associate tasked with culling and pricing bananas, for example, will struggle to answer the question, ‘How do I price the banana with four brown spots relative to the one with eight or nine brown spots?’

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Through that understanding the team and I can then develop new solutions that save time and money or create greater efficiencies or develop better processes. If a business process seems broken, analyze each step. At Freeman, we streamline our supply chain by taking a beginner’s mindset and breaking down the process.

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HR Digest

APRIL 21, 2024

Implementing effective diversity policies in the workplace is a comprehensive process that involves measures like recruitment strategies, flexible work arrangements, and dignity at work policies, as discussed in this guide. Consider it to be a critical element of your workplace diversity policies.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2020

For example, embracing the transformative capabilities of digital technologies for supply chain resilience by leveraging: big data analytics for streamlining supplier selection processes; cloud computing to facilitate and manage supplier relationships; and Internet of Things for enhancing logistics and shipping processes.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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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. economy that reveals new ways to drive American growth and innovation. industries.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2020

The authors suggest that such inequality grows due to the powerful market positions of leading firms, who can often simultaneously outsource a large chunk of their work to temporary labor firms, subcontractors or to global supply chains. They cite companies from Amazon to Apple, Nike to Uber, as examples of such practices.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2020

All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. Ultimately, this failure to undergo the long and expensive process of mapping led to greater costs and a loss of transparency when disaster struck.

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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. Its advocates say it will take the internet’s empowering potential to its next level.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And that’s why we’ve come so close to going from data that one human can process, to Big Data, which requires dozens of sensors to process. Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

The other side offers raging competition as the internet opens up the market to international players through innovation and technology that is hard to keep up with. Do not dismiss an innovation, thinking it is too early for its implementation. Create a Conducive Environment for Innovation. Cloud Technology. Keep trying, though.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris: Ultimately our roles as people leaders require a focus on creating environments that are inclusive, and implementing programs and processes that focus on equity and build diverse and sustainable organizations. What spurred your interest and passion for the topic? At Walmart, people are at the core of our business.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Take Google, for example. link] mikemyatt Well said Tanveer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

There are three reasons why CEOs should be tapping their Head of Supply Chain to unlock these benefits, not their Head of Sustainability. In fact, when done right this process should reveal significant upside for both customer and supplier. These are innovation tools. Second, they tend to be all stick and no carrot.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. manufacturers were doing about bringing production back to the United States and what factors were driving their decision process. One-hundred fifty-six U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In this HBR webinar, Supply chain thought leaders Hau Lee , Tom Linton , Jonathan Wright , and Kerry Mok discuss strategies for navigating Asia's supply chain.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. Moreover, influential leaders enhance performance by fostering an environment with innovation, learning, and growth.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency. Trend-Driven Innovation , as detailed in our book of the same name, is the end-to-end process of tracking changes in these expectations to make sure that your products, services or experiences don’t fall behind. Innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Process optimization can transform user experience. Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. A little dab of inventory data would enhance both customer expectations and process efficiencies. This realization gob-smacked the group.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Today’s leading organizations are using machine learning–based tools to automate decision processes, and they’re starting to experiment with more-advanced uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for digital transformation. AI can expedite “exception handling” in many financial processes. In fact, 44% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

It only takes 10 minutes of direct observation of a nurse in a hospital to understand care-delivery processes are not standardized and are dependent on individuals, not systems. The writings of manufacturing gurus Imai and Shingo provide insight into how quality is built into processes. This lack of reproducibility leads to errors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Putting executives in charge of improving cross-functional processes in large organizations is akin to asking them to paddle a boat upstream. 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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Here’s a case example. Over the next year, she recruited a small group of professionals, targeted a number of sectors that would make a difference for the company, created a process for sourcing and managing minority investments, and began to make deals. Naturally, Sheila was upset.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

Computer-driven, automated manufacturing that could make reshoring of factories feasible threatened to redraw the supply-chain map. Advanced materials and new construction methods were bringing far greater complexity to manufacturing processes. It consists of these four steps: 1. Compile a list. Understand their characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Innovating for Value in Health Care. They are taking control of their health care supply chains.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

The term “innovation” is often associated with geniuses turning startups into gold mines — the next Google, Apple, or Amazon, with products no one even knew they needed. Meanwhile, every company aspires to be as innovative as these startups. For more, see Brand New: Solving the Innovation Paradox, by G.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance. a clear external motivation to do something.

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