Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative. Set priorities for providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

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. Value is in the products and services themselves. Human capital. Intellectual capital.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. These teams regularly come up with innovations that enable these online retailers to roll out more new products and services faster than their competitors.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Consider BuildDirect, a home improvement products platform that delivers heavyweight goods directly to customers.(Disclosure: It turns out that the results are much better when humans are removed from the decision-making process. These manufacturing and logistical choices used to be made qualitatively by merchandisers.

Delegation 8

Delegation Supply Chain Merchandising Banking 8

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Quiet quitting by employees is shouting a profound message to their employers that Human Resources professionals, and organizations as a whole, cannot ignore. Quiet quitting is increasing the level of apprehension within companies and impacting productivity. That could help increase productivity.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Human Resources Attrition Motivation 52

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 12, 2018

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. Customers, employees, and partners are watching to see how the company reacts. Are you being transparent? Are you taking responsibility? You and Your Team Series.

Crisis 13

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers. Creating products and services for market segments of one (" mass customization ") isn''t easy. In a previous post , I described how U.K. How, precisely, did they do this?

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Certain tasks, such as talking a client through their frustration with a faulty product or mishandled order will, for now, remain a human task. Yet other elements of the “job” of store associate are still done by humans, including advising in-store customers about product features.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Outsourcing Call Center Organization 10

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. There are at least four proven approaches, all of which require that you ask what energizes you and what saps your motivation.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. Wal-Mart understands the power of women-led firms to innovate compelling products.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

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. But Frito-Lay stocks its own products. This gives it tremendous cost savings and the flexibility to launch and test new products.

Operations 14

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. Then our head of supply chain would do the same. When was the last time you overrode your human-resources systems to reward them? Do you have a way of regularly identifying and celebrating them?

Company 11

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. Such insurance products might be bundled with loans for start-ups. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In the same way, industrial product buyers are seeing their relationship to equipment manufacturers changed by smart, connected things. In many cases, it is no longer the industrially manufactured product that is the focus, but rather the web-based service that users access through that device.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. So sustainability pressures, if acted on, drive us to create and build better products, design more efficient services, execute better, and hire the best.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. What if a pharmaceutical company took the lead in conceptualizing and executing a collaborative solution, using predictive analytics to assemble and deliver a package of product and service offerings to motivate patients to stay on track?

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

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. It’s highly likely that providers will cooperate. health care system works.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Unlike the ad hoc operational meeting, the secret to having a highly productive business builder meeting is to be prepared. This is the appropriate home when Human Resources wants to do a talent review or when finance wants to share a new budget process. Is your supply chain performance worrisome?

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 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. Define the product specifications.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% So more stable scheduling is feasible, and holds the potential for improved sales and productivity. The results were striking. per year between 1987 and 2014. We hope not.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Productivity gained.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. 2 (2005): 447–504.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Human resources Leadership Talent management' Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known. I commend Ram Charan for his wisdom in provoking such a useful dialogue, even as I implore leaders not to cut the baby in half by splitting HR out of ignorance.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

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 27, 2012

To do this, he planned to institute global manufacturing platforms so that product "families" would have the same core design no matter where in the world they were sold. This person, let's call him Bill, had been with the company for many years, understood the engineering and supply chain issues, and was well respected by everyone.

Career 17

Career P&L Supply Chain CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Many systems employing physicians have done so without developing a cohesive physician organization and lack standardized staffing and operational support functions, such as effective purchasing and supply chain operations, effective scheduling systems, and centralized office locations.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8