Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups). We can connect insights and execution at a pace never before possible.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The restaurant chain, Olive Garden, uses predictive analytics to guide its food buying and retail staffing plans. Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups). We can connect insights and execution at a pace never before possible.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

The product of an MIT CTL research initiative called Future Freight Flows, it is a method of convening conversations and achieving alignment, based on the practice of scenario planning. This makes scenario planning an effective approach for long-range freight transportation planning.

Planning 8

Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Navigating the Next Two Years in Mexico.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 9