Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’. And this genuinely has to go all the way. Because business has to be about more than just profit.

Brand 189

Brand Supply Chain Ethics Reputation 189

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

SWOT 118

SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. You can watch the webinar here.

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tick of every sale quickly contributes to a pattern revealing how the marketplace is receiving our products at every given moment. 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. Same for Elon Musk.

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The impact on supply chains. A looming crisis. What companies can do.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

It may also lead them to charge more for their products, which could drive away customers. The sources you’re getting your products from are important. Making a bad decision can quickly end up costing your company more than you expect, even if the product or item doesn’t seem to be that central to your business.

Long-term 121

Long-term Bottom-up Quality Cost 121

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2019

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. When it comes to sourcing your materials, you will need to have a system that looks at the different offers, compares them based on price, benefits, and flexibility. Resource Allocation.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Film Outsourcing Cost 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Why are companies having such a hard time raising prices?

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Today, the marketplace business is no more about massive catalogs of different categories of products. Supply-chain and Demand. Take Amazon for example.

Retail 120

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 120

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. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. Index funds, meanwhile, are a cause of heated debate.

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. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Today, the marketplace business is no more about massive catalogs of different categories of products. Supply-chain and Demand. Take Amazon for example.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

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. Much finer energy intelligence data has helped the company understand its true cost per product line.

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The price tag for accomplishing these global goals is estimated to be up to $3 trillion a year for 15 years. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Bernard Arnault has a proven track record of building luxury goods brands and creating financial value for a multitude of luxury product lines. This listing then provided an outlet for family members who wished to sell their shares at a market price and exit the company. That is not what he does.

Ramaswamy 13

Ramaswamy Supply Chain Brand Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Russia’s recent economic downturn, precipitated by the collapse in energy prices, has also contributed to more conservative state policies at the expense of economic reforms – which undermines the business climate and long-term growth prospects. further sanctions, oil price drop, protests, etc.)

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

. “A lot of lifestyle businesses used to not be able to get started in larger-run manufacturing which was a pitfall for any small-scale renaissance,” observes Mark Hatch, founder of TechShop , a chain of urban maker spaces in U.S. First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Others maintain supply chains, handle logistics, and otherwise support those front-line troops. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. Unnecessary supervisors create work and don’t increase efficiency , thus lowering an organization’s productivity.

Cost 9

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 9

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?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Deal Chasers: These consumers seem attractive because they buy a lot of volume, but they are less engaged and turn getting the best price into a game. Their price sensitivity leads firms to over-promote and dilute profits. selling costs, product returns, customer support). For Netflix, such a threat came in the form of Redbox.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Industries will have to overcome daunting commercial barriers.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 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. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. But when the capital requirements to enter markets have declined, the marginal cost of reaching consumers is effectively zero, and one-off production is not hard to do.

Porter 15

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Self-driving capabilities can boost safety and driver productivity. What will happen to demand, pricing, and usage patterns over that horizon? How will road pricing models need to change? What products will be relevant in this evolving future where fleets and product liability become more important? Transportation.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This data is both financial (revenues, profits, growth) and non-financial (customer sentiment, employee engagement, marketing effectiveness, product feedback, and partner ecosystems). Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point. If the owner of that subsidiary discounts profits in Egypt by 12.5

NPV 13

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

As the currency was crashing, he found himself facing a painful dilemma: either raise prices to recoup the losses and hit his annual target — set in U.S. But with the currency changing every day, how much of a price increase should he consider? Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g., Federal Reserve.

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

A new paper by economists Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout argues that the problem isn’t confined to finance, or even large international corporations. Economists consider markups to be the difference between what a business pays for the inputs it uses and what it charges for the products it produces. This is quite a claim.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Price Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

When we talk about natural resource constraints on business — such as shortages in water or increases in the cost of energy or agricultural products — we tend to forget how deeply intertwined these commodities are. Together, these diverse players will help governments, companies and communities work together to manage the nexus.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities. I disagree with this priority. Social investment.

Innovation 9

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Stakeholders ranging from your supply chains to customers that walk into retail storefronts increasingly prefer to do business with companies that pursue cost-effective sustainability. Investing in such systems today can insulate companies from rising retail prices for grid electricity, eventually saving billions of dollars per year.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Too often, senior executive teams favor horizontal, internally focused actions like “building a world-class finance function.” ” Micro battles reorient the organization to vertical initiatives, such as increasing sales of a specific product in a specific region or channel.

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 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

Many middle-class Americans are earning their money in a deflationary economy where wages are falling, and spending it in a traditional economy where prices are rising. The prices of most of those expenditures are rising faster than inflation. From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Health Care 8