In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

These are the businesses whose products and services are having an impact across their industries and our culture. Johnson had launched Apple’s retail strategy and was the man behind the aggressive store expansion a decade ago. So much has been written about business innovation this past year. Last year, J.C.

Chief Operating Officer 202

Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer CEO Innovation 202

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. In fact, a great way to increase productivity in a workplace is to cross-train employees across departments. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night.

Management 150

Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 19, 2012

I know from my marketing background that the human brain can absorb only so much. Complexity, changing markets and shareholder pressures will escalate. Web opportunities will expand one-to-on marketing, negating middle-men. Business will be more complex. Computers were supposed to make things easier for us.

CEO 204

CEO Competitive Advantage Teamwork Marketing 204

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

And for more than 100 years, the factory pumped out Heinz Ketchup and a variety of baby foods to markets in Canada and the USA. Loblaws , Canada’s largest food retailer, announced that they were discontinuing French’s ketchup, claiming that the new brand’s sales weren’t cutting it.

Retail 100

Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

Fashion 124

Fashion Press Release Discount PR 124

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. They aren’t gouging the consumer; they’re simply ensuring their products garner a fair price. As much as ‘branded’ companies pride themselves on being ‘value-added’ marketers, they continually exchange ‘price buyers’ with their competition.

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Price CEO Brand Discount 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart has perhaps the best physical distribution and retail network in the world. It needs to be competitive on digital channels, sure.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. 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.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Going to market effectively these days, no matter what business you''re in, means relating to customers as individuals — even if there are millions of them. retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 8

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

In the quest to improve productivity and work life, the information that companies can analyze about you at work is limited only by software. It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.”

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

Not one study suggests that working in an office eight hours a day, five days a week maximizes employee productivity, satisfaction, or performance. Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive. Why is that?

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Constraint McKinsey Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Human capital.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

Quinn 9

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Inherently, digital printing’s “additive” manufacturing process promises to be less costly than more conventional “subtractive” manufacturing techniques — think about printing something layer by layer instead of milling a block of material into a final product. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? For example, Jane is a midlevel manager in the marketing department of a large software firm. The politics of avoidance.

Politics 8

Politics Retail Career Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. But I've found that it does.

Human Resources 13

Human Resources Operations Compliance Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Their greatest human capital concerns have shifted. They seem increasingly focused on productively cultivating that core 20% to 25% of people who reliably generate the 70% to 80% of enterprise value.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Hundreds of millions of additional dollars are being spent on professional services, ancillary products and other offerings. Companies are beginning to expand beyond their home markets and into other states. And more are joining every day.

Industry 8

Industry Retail Banking Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The relentless rise of online retailers has led to deep soul searching among brick-and-mortar retailers to find ways to compete. The traditional methods of competing through convenience, assortment, and pricing are largely ineffective against online retailers who outperform brick-and-mortar retailers in these dimensions.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. Our mission is to operate the best specialty retail business in America, regardless of the product we sell. Human Resources. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter. Leadership.

Mission Statement 209

Mission Statement CEO Human Resources Brand 209

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market. This company is constantly searching for revolutionary new products and services. By nature, marketing people are dynamic and impatient. Twenty years ago, Nestlé could see that the instant coffee market was broken. This initiative isn’t change.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly.

Case Study 10

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 10

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

As someone who has studied human resources for decades, I have never met an employer who actually held this view. Earnings for the hourly paid in general have also declined since their peak in 1972, about the point when wage increases stopped keeping up with productivity increases.

Cost 8

Cost Morale Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Data-driven decision-making requires a series of steps best referred to as the "data production line." Gerstner, Jr.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. This was a notable success — but what if we combined the insights and resources of a life science company and health provider that were both focused on, say, acute cardiovascular diseases? The options are tangible.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

Management 8

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

She'd been doing it since she was a little girl, tagging along with her father as he grew his business from one small market in central Lonburg into one of Spain's largest grocery retailers, with more than 1,000 locations across the country. Shifts were stable, benefits were generous, and salaries were well above market levels.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Policies Retail 10