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’. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation. And this genuinely has to go all the way.

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Brand Supply Chain Ethics Reputation 189

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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

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’. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

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 technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The impact on supply chains. A looming crisis. Insight Center.

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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. Where possible all pricing should be subject to nuanced considerations.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Investing in management and leadership skills also has knock-on effects for productivity, says Anthony Painter in FE News and The Paradise in response to Keir Starmer’s speech at UK Finance at the end of February. Explore how some organisations are looking to virtual workspaces to tackle this – is it a trend worth following?

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The real issue is whether anything can be done about this investment trend. The answer is yes.

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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. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the Retail 4.0 Supply-chain and Demand. The sole purpose of a marketplace platform is to fill the gap between supply and demand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Liane Davey. 4 Ways to Become a Better Learner. Monique Valcour. Strong functional skills take time to develop.

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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. Smart companies are watching this trend. For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S.

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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

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. during the assembly. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Two factors triggered my unease: the trends described by my co-authors and I in our recent HBR article and new work by Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence. In a Council on Foreign Relations working paper co-authored with Sandile Hlatshwayo of NYU's Stern School, Spence turns his attention to employment trends in the U.S.

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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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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.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the marketplace model today. Supply-chain and Demand. The sole purpose of a marketplace platform is to fill the gap between supply and demand.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. At a company that’s playing development to win, business units are leading the effort, enabled by sales, marketing, finance, supply chain management, CSR, and social investment. That is the reactive approach to economic development. It’s neither.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Induced by rising economic pressures – and reflective of trends in other emerging markets – the Russian government has been pressured to support local businesses, often to the detriment of foreign investors. Our clients in the area have already noticed several changes that make it harder and costlier to do business there.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

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. Exceptional executives have deep knowledge of how the pieces of the organization fit together to create value and deliver results.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The idea of revealing human capital data in annual reports is not new and the reports won’t change overnight; however there is now an unmistakeable trend towards enhanced reporting. This is no fringe movement. The big player in the U.S. That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Based on the evidence, democracy might lead to lower trend rates of economic growth , or it might lead to higher trend rates. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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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. • Machine learning and cognitive computing.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. But it’s not just technology causing this learning overload.

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

That trend has accelerated in recent years. 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. They argue that this rise in markups explains some of the most disconcerting and perplexing trends in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Retail Price Trends 9

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. Our argument has been that a number of trends have leveled the playing field around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Both of these trends existed before Trump became president, but his election has accelerated them both. But there is one other reason all of this is happening now, one that perhaps represents a silver lining within a more worrying trend. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt.

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