Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. Indeed, corporations like Kraft, consider role rotation standard for building well-rounded leaders , and actively invite promising line managers to take on staff jobs and the reverse.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

AI can support three types of automation : robotic process automation (RPA), cognitive automation, and social robotics. RPA automates high volume, low complexity, routine administrative “white collar” tasks — the logical successor to outsourcing many administrative processes, further reducing costs and increasing accuracy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Outsourcing Call Center Organization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process. The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. That’s what the operational meeting is all about.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Regardless of the cause, the important thing is to have the right people, data, tools, process, and mindset to handle whatever might come your way. Involve your head of marketing and human resources early. But sometimes it’s a symptom of a deeper problem in your culture, product, or operating model.

Crisis 9

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The latter is not an unfamiliar process for most large organizations, which routinely deploy procurement officers to identify the strongest suppliers and then measure quality to ensure delivery of a defect-free product in an agreed-upon time frame. And while employers operate across state lines, very few providers do.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. Actors in this ecosystem are increasingly working together rather than handing off information or tasks to the next entity in a linear process. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. They’re also sharing risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Then our head of supply chain would do the same. When was the last time you overrode your human-resources systems to reward them? The head of HR would stand up and talk about HR excellence and outline a 10-step program to bring us up to a world-class standard.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Motivating people requires more than overcoming organizational hurdles and winning people’s trust with fair process. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. It also rests on aligned and fair incentives.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. They are taking control of their health care supply chains. It is a costly mistake. physical therapy.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Human resources development.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As these managers start to concern themselves with broad strategic issues and organizational change processes, lateral relationships with people outside their immediate area become even more critical to the manag­ers’ ability to get things done. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Prior research also links unstable scheduling with lower “process conformance” — stores’ conformance to company processes.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8