Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Smoother supply chains. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Retail shelf analysis.

Process 9

Process Company Supply Chain Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Competitiveness in IT will come from connecting employees and partners in meaningful ways to bring products to market faster (how does a supply chain process shrink from days to minutes?),

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. An important but less well-documented type is comprised of an estimated 1 million small businesses that are part of commercial and government supply chains (referred to as suppliers).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. It can rapidly build demand, which reinforces the relationship with retail grocers. But Frito-Lay stocks its own products.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. This is quite a shift.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. CSA Images/Printstock Collection/Getty Images. will grow to U.S. $5

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. Pricing pressure is more intense in retail, less so in areas like top-branded luxury goods or highly differentiated machinery. About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.). Externally, the reasons vary by industry.

Price 8

Price Productivity Products Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? What will our retail footprint be? Retail and consumer business. How do these changes help us manage the needs of our aging population? How does the confluence of autonomy, sharing, and electrification change the fuel mix in automotive applications?

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. When all their well-intentioned, but separate, solutions showed up at retail, customer satisfaction never improved.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Finance and business executives often joke that the word blockchain placed at the end of the company name is enough to increase the share price of any entity at least twofold. Supply Chain Management. Better management of inventory. Many people are using the world blockchain these days.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Document Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. Apple demonstrably understands design, UX, and global supply chain alignment in ways few organizations ever have. Traditional retailers smirked and cried “niche!”

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. Outside the hot topic of who gets to control the thermostat , most managers just want to know that the lights will turn on and the computer servers will not be interrupted. We believe that this view is quickly becoming obsolete.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. WWWabs go mainstream worldwide next year. That's Quite A Coup, Onward Group!

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. 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. Frito-Lay Inc.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon, the upscale retailer of yoga clothing, is doing great. For years, the creative side of the company was the top priority, leaving things like finance, IT, and HR to suffer (yes, they tried to run their operations on spreadsheets). The authors also say Lululemon should probably pay more attention to its supply chain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Over a century ago retail and advertising pioneer John Wanamaker said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Today smart marketers do know which half isn’t working. Marketing Automation : Marketing automation brings it all together. So it can be complicated.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Over a century ago retail and advertising pioneer John Wanamaker said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Today smart marketers do know which half isn’t working. Marketing Automation : Marketing automation brings it all together. So it can be complicated.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. There are three reasons a rethink is due: East Asia’s shrinking cost advantage. presidential election.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 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. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Online retailers, like Amazon, employ about one-third the number of employees per dollar sold as conventional retailers do. If jobs decline in the auto industry, jobs vanish in the automobile supply chain.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 9