Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

With increasingly vast bodies of knowledge about experiences, one can see how business Intelligence, with enough computing power, became Artificial Intelligence. 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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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture. She has held roles of increasing seniority including VP and Senior Business Partner, leading Human Resources for the North America Geography, Global Product Creation (Footwear, Apparel and Equipment), Global Finance and NIKE, Inc.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2016

The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting. You will be facing a buyer network likely consisting of representatives from purchasing, finance, legal, and other corporate functions relevant to the organization’s specific needs. Or how about attorney-to-attorney contact?

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Due Diligence Team Supply Chain Finance 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 314

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. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ). Reserved your spot? We can also learn a lot from strong female leaders.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

She also met with people from procurement and others in the supply chain organization to pull together a consolidated picture of the costs. To address the issue, she met with fellow engineers in each of the teams to understand their processes and how they utilized the materials.

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Supply Chain Power Engineering Group Facilitation 10

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

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. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO. We have tried. Nothing worked.

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Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. The longer the time horizon, the more appealing many aspects of ESG, as mentioned above.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 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. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Perhaps the most powerful lever over inventory levels is predicting how much product customers will want, or what's called " demand planning." But inventory is not a minor issue.

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Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options.

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Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Virtually every leader wishes they had the power to inspire people to change. What if you’re just trying to change the way your people handle loans, manage a supply chain, or interact with customers? There is a simpler way to inspire change.

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Charisma Supply Chain Creativity Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk. Coca-Cola sees five thousand women entrepreneurs as part of its global supply chain by 2020.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It has at least 21 data science systems , which include several supply chain optimization systems, an inventory forecasting system, a sales forecasting system, a profit optimization system, a recommendation engine, and many others.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T., general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. So I began a practice I've kept up to this day.

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Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. It’s neither.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Much has been made of this software-powered “hardware renaissance,” particularly as it has spawned a vibrant local “maker movement” and hardware hobbyist community. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

How to Negotiate with Someone More Powerful than You. You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. The winning company would not only design and install the project, but also finance it and own it for 20 years, selling power to the residents at a discounted rate.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

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. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. This will include the use of digital platforms to harness the power of networks outside their four walls.

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Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. Third, the companies with the most pricing power use technological tools to measure value and willingness to pay in a systematic way.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

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. Our research included a new Industry Digitization Index, the first major attempt to measure digital progress and adoption in each sector.

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Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Experiences power that growth cycle, so you’ll want to understand which experiences matter most and gain as many of them as quickly as possible. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. A regularly updated personal experience map will help you chart your path.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold. Imagine what that dynamic becomes when using the power of pull.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

E-commerce is already allowing Chinese manufacturers to accurately predict demand by improving communication throughout the supply chain, so retailers have less and less inventory sitting idle. It doesn’t matter how wealthy or powerful you are, if you can’t enjoy the sunshine, you can’t be truly happy.

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Retail Supply Chain PR Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck.

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Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? Self-driving vehicles offer the options of automated and manual driving. Financial services.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The same applies to trade finance and financial assets, where companies such as Digital Asset Holdings (run by JPMorgan veteran Blythe Masters ), Blockstream, and Chain are trying to revolutionize how assets are issued and traded.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8