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Unusual Ways to Save Money In Your Business

Strategy Driven

You should have a just-in-time supply chain system, and a system that allows you to get the right people in the right jobs. There are several ways you can cut your regular expenses and operational costs. Paper and radio advertising offers fewer tracking options. Resource Allocation.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A solution that is situationally appropriate and highly adaptable to unanticipated stresses is, in a way, “best&# , but rarely shows up in the “solutions&# literature. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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Every Organizational Function Needs to Work on Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GARTNER

Harvard Business Review

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

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Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?

Harvard Business Review

Businesses and governments will have to work together to increase productivity, encourage innovation, and improve integration in supply chains toward a sustainable global food balance. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. and non-native English speakers can feel isolated in business school and find the MBA experience more difficult and stressful. Practical leadership and management skills.

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How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover

Harvard Business Review

“Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” Stress “we” over “I” Highlight what you have in common. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.” Make small talk. It’s who they are.