Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Naming this sweeping trend, vaporized , Tercek predicts that whatever can be vaporized will be. The process of vaporizing physical things and replacing them with digital substitutes is the biggest trend affecting manufacturing, distribution, retail, and marketing in the 21st century,” Tercek adds. “The It will continue.

Trends 50

Trends Software Retail Resistance 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The company culture is evident in many aspects of the business operations, including the office arrangements, the hiring decisions and the staff perks. Remote options : Working from home has become the norm lately and many businesses are making changes to operate fully remotely.

Company 117

Company Discount Diversity Software 117

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm. Huge retail corporations, like Home Depot or Wal-Mart, do not want to deal with thousands of vendors.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

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

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. wholesale grocers (prior to Bell’s arrival in 1977), which meant its market share inside competitive retailers was, naturally, quite low. “By

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Ted Kraybill, president of ESI Trends , said in an Automotive News article, “Poor employee retention is a big money-wasting opportunity when you consider the retention and training costs and lost productivity issues, and the link to poor customer satisfaction and customer retention.”.

Automotive 40

Automotive Industry Sample Training 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. Robots are improving productivity and margins in retail warehouses and fulfillment centers. Rio Tinto, the global mining-and-metals company, is exploring how digital technologies can automate mine-to-port operations. Alistair Berg/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Retail Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics. Mary Grace holds leadership appointments with several professional societies including Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Where are the next trends and opportunities? This chapter talks candidly about recent trends. The recent years succeeded in exploding a great many myths and presumptions about business.

Ethics 60

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

Retail 9

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

Motivation 9

Motivation How To Learning-by-Doing Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To be highly digital, by our definition a company must pass four tests: it generates a high percentage of revenues digitally; its leadership (both the CEO and the Board) has deep digital experience; it does business significantly enabled by digital channels; and it's recognized as transformational in its industry. In retail, there's Wal-Mart.

Retail 14

Retail CEO Health Care Middle Management 14

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives.

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. The results are spectacular.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Fire TV, Amazon Prime) and to stock its warehouses.

Strategy 9

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Beyond traditional hierarchies and contracts, networks and social and external collaborations will make leadership more horizontal, shared, and collective. This quadrant might include work where employees are colocated and the operations and workers are easily accessible through physical connections. All-inclusive global talent market.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. The public also loves to see celebrities, products, trends and cultural icons fall just as quickly as they rise. ’ What they’re really selling: Retail merchandise. Retailers are motivated by keeping the cash registers ringing. World Class.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g., Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google Trends is fast becoming an indispensable tool for many analysts who believe — as Brin does — that the wisdom (and/or delusions) of googling crowds can successfully inform investment strategies worldwide. But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 9

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There are many explanations for this abysmal failure rate, but a 10-year longitudinal study on executive leadership conducted by my firm showed one clear reason. A full 61% of executives told us they were not prepared for the strategic challenges they faced upon being appointed to senior leadership roles.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Budgeting Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Many industries, from retail to manufacturing, have been fundamentally transformed by Silicon Valley technology,” said Zawacki.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Although the impact of each company’s decision is small, this cumulative trend contributes to the growing inequality of wealth and the stagnation of middle-class earnings, reinforcing the deeply entrenched poverty of nearly 50 million Americans. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Their stories — and the five wider trends they reflect — help illustrate what it means to be a creative marketer today. Like many retailers, Macy’s has traditionally spent 85% of its marketing budget on driving sales. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?”

Creativity 10

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions.

Document 10

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. Big themes are great, but periodically a specific example of leadership seems worthy of extra attention. These trends will continue and companies will need to adapt — fast.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

“We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. Deep insights into customer behaviors and market trends mean that the CMO needs to identify what changes are necessary.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8