HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. Too much hovering and guidance lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed, and people tend to give up faster under such leadership. They are the long-term planners and strategists of the company. Middle managers.

Management 87

Management Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 87

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations.

Supply Chain 64

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 64

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

I took over a supply chain team just a few months before the largest sales day of the year…Black Friday. My leadership capabilities would be pushed to the brink. That makes job burnout more common than getting the flu (with much longer term effects). This leads to a huge amount of leadership frustration.

Execution 251

Execution Stress Supply Chain Absenteeism 251

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A structured strategy for managing workforce can bring consistency into overall operations during today’s challenging times by putting people first. If the organization discovered that the production in their supply chain was disrupted, how would it impact the overall business outcomes?

Management 98

Management Supply Chain Crisis Scenario Planning 98

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And, so, before too long, the taxi you’re about to hail in Phoenix, shows up; Poof! 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. No driver necessary. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. Same for Elon Musk.

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Addressing the AGM as the President for the second term, Kaushal said: “confronting the ‘New Abnormal’ is about creating a better tomorrow. Management and sustainability Health and safety has been considered important for businesses for a long time, but it is highly technical and not central to the dialogue around sustainability – until now.

Crisis Management 52

Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. 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

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.

Price 371

Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

While there is a business case for integrity, an organization that embraces it must make a conscious decision to prioritize the long term, the intangible, and the existential over the specific and measurable. It can cost more to ensure better labor standards in a supply chain, or to meet environmental standards.

Ethics 12

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

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

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It hardly mattered anymore if your pepper supply chain was the best designed and most efficiently run, if your customer base was elite, or if the quality of your pepper was second to none. Personal leadership is indispensable to operationalizing your purpose. In fact, history is filled with similar stories.

Strategy 11

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

More and more, companies are building long-term commitments to corporate social responsibility. in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). Four particular areas stand out among many. Engaged organizations also grew profits as much as three times faster than their competitors.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

And it's not a short-term problem, either. While access to water has been recognized as a basic human right, it is also increasingly clear to see that it is a commodity — a resource in high demand that should be valued according to its supply. Much of the leading work in understanding water risk has come from Coca-Cola.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. We’ve enlisted prominent thinkers and leading CEOs who understand that sustainable business practices are in a company’s long-term interests. How can you make core business operations more sustainable?

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If Furthermore, the returns on investment are long term.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 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 leadership team would emphasize issues that cut across the plant and parse out topics that can be addressed by individuals or subgroups of the team. That will go a long way toward setting your meetings up for success.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. Vision and leadership. Emotional appeal. Products and services.

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 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). So, what makes the difference between success and failure?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

” Jamie Moldafsky emphasizes the importance of staying positive and optimistic: “You have to keep your eye on the long-term.” But sometimes it’s a symptom of a deeper problem in your culture, product, or operating model. .” As a company, this means, “Who are we and what is our mission?”

Crisis 11

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. And we know that on the ground, organizations have different leadership models, levels of technical expertise, and culture — all of which impact their readiness to engage in change.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

“Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” It could be about process — like how long the talks should take, and how the other side tries to involve stakeholders — which still gives you context that might prove useful. Make small talk.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

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. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

The ever-increasing pace of change has brought with it the need to find new ways of operating and the ability to understand and incorporate new technologies on an almost daily basis. As if that weren’t challenging enough, over the past decade it’s gotten even harder. Name and some details changed.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

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. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Much of the failure of long-term strategizing arises not from its difficulty but from confusion about how to do it. It had long outsourced most of its manufacturing to a limited number of Asian countries, with many factories in each. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Supply Chain Outsourcing Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The greening of the supply chain. The list of "once-in-a-century" storms, floods, and droughts this year is too long to list. But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. That said, the respondents might be right in the larger sense that companies are unprepared for systemic and longer-term challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8