The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. Those still working on site are often arguably under even greater strain, whether those in our hospitals and health systems, or those in our food and retail supply chains. Invest in skills.

Hamel 99

Hamel Leadership Supply Chain Tourism 99

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 21, 2020

There is typically no one factor on its own that contributes to poor performance but rather a combination of risk and uncertainty; stakeholder engagement; strategy, governance and procurement; leadership and capable teams’ coordination and supply chain integration. ” Fault lines.

Supply Chain 86

Supply Chain Proposal Budgeting Uncertainty 86

Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is Sustainable Leadership? Sustainable Leadership is a style of management that drives solutions for environmental, social and economic challenges in the world. It recognizes leadership as a process of influence and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation. Sources: [link].

Quality 52

Quality Long-term Short-term Leadership 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Walmart, discusses the world’s largest retailer’s priorities when selecting future leadership pipeline, and why companies who hire a diverse talent do better than others. At Walmart, people are at the core of our business.

Environment 98

Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

At Freeman, we streamline our supply chain by taking a beginner’s mindset and breaking down the process. She is a dynamic and empathetic leader who has succeeded by putting people first in the process of transformational leadership. Her dual-role leadership made a tremendous impact on strategy and performance.

COO 130

COO Supply Chain Globalization Learning-by-Doing 130

HR Digest

APRIL 21, 2024

Leadership Commitment : Demonstrate visible commitment from senior leadership to promote and uphold the D&I policy, setting the tone for the entire organization. This could include designated contact persons, helplines, or online reporting systems.

Diversity 52

Diversity Policies Commitment Supply Chain 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. The first is to make wise decisions over time that express a coherent vision.

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2020

For instance, roughly half identified bankruptcies and industry consolidation as a likely consequence of the post-pandemic recession, with supply chain concerns a major cause of general pessimism surrounding the ability of companies to recover. ” A greener, fairer world.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Crisis Globalization Report 87

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As an example, Look at Apple!

Blog 295

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. Fausto helped us grow from nothing into a team of 15 people and about 500 farmers, at which point Fausto’s leadership started to falter.

Talent Management 167

Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2022

At the peak of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, countries around the world scrabbled to try and produce and procure sufficient quantities of medical equipment, such as ventilators, to allow health systems to cope with the deluge of patients. Diverse inputs.

Innovation 90

Innovation Supply Chain Diversity Project 90

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. But the focus on win-win can blind us to the needs of critical partners.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. The rapid increase in data about real-time conditions in supply chains will enable more agility. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

While discussing a Harvard colleague's world-class work on how big data and analytics transform public sector effectiveness, I couldn't help but ask: How many public school systems had reached out to him for advice? Accountability is often the unhappy byproduct rather than desirable outcome of innovative analytics.

Resistance 8

Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Collaborative innovations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Innovate more effectively?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 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. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company still declines to say whether its systemic supplier-related accounting misstatements better reflect malpractice or malfeasance. Even Walmart—overwhelmingly focused on optimizing its everyday low-pricing supply chain logistics—took Tesco’s command of customer analytics seriously. Or is it probability?

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

These numbers reflect a fundamentally flawed approach to thinking about systems. Great service sits at the intersection of sales, customer service, and supply chain. Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Organization design is not a static, one-time event.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

So you have to innovate, do things better, and customer service becomes more important. One thing is identifying the customer and what product offerings you want to make — there, the innovation piece is really important. We haven't really tackled some of the crosshair issues that need our attention. No we're not.

Survey 8

Survey CEO Insurance Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

In recent years, Jones has raised the bar for DE&I leadership across the globe for a number of talent initiatives for groups that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Intel continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I).

Diversity 52

Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. Evaluate your leadership team’s openness to co-creation as well.

CRM 8

CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

In this era of complex supply chains and the hiring of expert sub-contractors, taking such responsibility is crucial for preventing events with the potential to adversely affect the corporation and its reputation. Said Tillerson: And I want to stress that the contractors that we work with are embedded within our OIMS processes as well.

CEO 8

CEO Outsourcing Supply Chain Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. Leadership Marketing'

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

It goes back to my role in establishing the firm’s Responsible Business Leadership function as well as the PwC Charitable Foundation. Thanks to a nonprofit board service role, I attended a class through Leadership Greater Chicago, where I met my husband, who is African American. That’s more than lip service.

Diversity 40

Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. Most survey respondents probably miss these systemic issues. Additionally, only 11% ranked climate change as a very significant issue.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8