Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2021

Global commerce continues to expand and supply chains are becoming more complex. The risks can be controlled and avoided when team members assume responsibility for identifying the risk before evaluating and addressing them. The top five operational risks are collaboration, cultural, customer, people, and technology risks.

Operations 117

Operations Strategy Management Risk Management 117

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Passionate about helping clients navigate the complex intricacies of tax law, Steve practices as the founding partner of Moskowitz LLP in San Francisco, overseeing a growing team of accomplished tax attorneys and accountants. Are the entities interdependent?

Supply Chain 66

Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 66

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.

Price 371

Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2019

Passionate about helping clients navigate the complex intricacies of tax law, Steve practices as the founding partner of Moskowitz LLP in San Francisco, overseeing a growing team of accomplished tax attorneys and accountants. Are the entities interdependent?

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 57

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Why we need Help to Hire One of the priorities of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is increasing productivity by boosting skills and getting the economically inactive, particularly the over-50s, back into work. CMI endorses MHFA England ’s call for managers to be equipped with the skills to bring out the very best in their teams.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. based labor. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When is it possible to predict a product’s success? How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products?

Black-Scholes 8

Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? They build a product hoping to monetize, but not knowing whether they will be able to. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

At the same time, Tom was looping in supply chain partners, as well as quality, sales, and finance teams that were dispersed around the globe. The main goal was that these cross-functional teams had to reach consensus on a solution in two days—and devise a plan for executing it.

Welch 8

Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. At the session, she shared the overall product cost data and the business requirement to make a substantial reduction.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Power Engineering Group Facilitation 10

HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2021

Finance special emphasis on block chain and Cryptocurrency. Supply chain management. Video production. Collaborations and conflict resolution are good skills to leverage as, again, working in a team where most business is carried out online is an advantage. . Brand Management. Cloud computing.

Skills 116

Skills Supply Chain Emotional Intelligence Affiliate Marketing 116

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Drive Digitalization — Or At Least Don’t Be a Drag.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

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. Add to Cart.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Imagine trying to use the objective of being "innovative" as a criterion for the multitude of investments a company must make around product launches and R&D. When the team members first come together, they tend to misunderstand one another.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 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. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud. Why is this?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. When her firm decided to invest in start-ups, she was asked to put together a team to make it happen. Soon she was meeting regularly with the senior executive team about deals and overall strategy.

Career 10

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You can have terrific people working in the right teams and still not see the financial results you’re hoping for. 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.

Cost 12

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. Coca-Cola sees five thousand women entrepreneurs as part of its global supply chain by 2020.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Lateral moves within your organization can be a great way to build new skills and relationships and get exposure to different products or services. In concert with team members, you can redraw some boundaries to create stretch opportunities for others as you shift responsibilities to make space for your own new challenges.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. 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.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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

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. Besides, both of these companies are publicly traded, and both are still largely controlled by a small investor group or influential leadership team. That is not what he does.

Ramaswamy 13

Ramaswamy Supply Chain Brand Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 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. Marketing, sales teams and the DSD force itself operate with tremendous coordination to ensure that they are consistently aligned in their business objectives.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. The group leverages a similar-sized contractor team. Business demand exceeds the team’s capacity to deliver. Is there a “right” way to structure these relationships?

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. They allow you to prove that you’re highly competent at what you do.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The most digital companies see outsized growth in productivity and profit margins. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. But what are the key attributes of a digital leader?

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. The list goes on and on. Should certain segments be given priority?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. Inevitably, teams fail to link the structure (i.e., A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8