HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2023

At a quarterly earnings call on August 1st, 2023, Alain Bedard, CEO of TFI International, revealed that the transportation company had achieved a 15% decrease in their year-over-year shipping expenses. At a Tuesday earnings call, Donald Bassell, CFO of ARKO, a convenience store operator, reported that personnel costs had increased 6.5%

Conference 52

Conference CEO CFO Planning 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

These include seismic testing, directional services for drillers, transport services, and more. The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. From project management to technical support, these firms can help their clients manage the risks and costs of drilling operations.

Short-term 83

Short-term Industry Technology Long-term 83

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

In today’s ever-evolving job market, individuals are constantly on the lookout for career paths that promise stability, growth, and fulfillment. Sales and Marketing One of the most prominent career paths within consumer non-durables is sales and marketing.

Career 78

Career Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals Industry 78

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As a project manager for a marketing agency, I noticed a significant increase in my team’s productivity when we transitioned to remote work. Anon, Marketing Industry Improve Employee Satisfaction One of the most significant benefits of remote work is that it can lead to improved employee satisfaction.

Guidelines 100

Guidelines Policies Cost Pharmaceuticals 100

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The more people you could cluster together, the more diverse the range of experiences they could blend together, the greater the local market for any products those people might deliver, and the greater resources that would be available to help them do so. For many years, innovation was thought to be a matter of agglomeration.

Real Estate 86

Real Estate Transportation Industry Innovation 86

HR Digest

JANUARY 15, 2022

That’s because working from home allows them to cut down on transportation expenses. . Critical business functions such as financial services and high-profile operations like government tend to need onsite presence. For example, if you run a marketing agency, you may work alongside clients on projects.

Absenteeism 130

Absenteeism Video Transportation Tools 130

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To achieve perpetual growth and increase revenues, businesses need to work closely with all parties involved in fulfilling core business operations. Supply chain management has immense potential to enhance business operations, improve productivity, and increase a business’s agility to changing market trends and customer demand.

Supply Chain 105

Supply Chain Agility Management Operations 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Pew reports that 64% of American adults own a smartphone, and that they use it for every imaginable activity — banking, ordering food, watching movies, reading books, managing all manner of transportation from navigation to ordering taxis. As consumers’ attention lives with their mobile device, so must marketing strategies.

Marketing 8

Marketing Download Marketing Strategy Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Now within services we are seeing a shift from physical services (like transportation) to information-intensive services (like financial services and digital-content delivery). Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. labor pool.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. Today, new transportation vendors like Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, and Grabtaxi are changing our relationship with cars. Some of the same factors that have driven the transformation in IT help point the way toward the future of transportation. The first is convenience.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

In principle, it doesn’t really matter if you do this through old-school leaflet drops or ecommerce marketing. Prior to COVID19, it seemed like nothing could stop the trend towards leaner, more agile businesses. Many businesses had their operations disrupted through a lack of supplies. There are lots of ways of doing this.

Strategy 111

Strategy Long-term Supply Chain Transportation 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Supermarkets are a case in point.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

But for entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate innovators clamoring to build these businesses, it’s important to recognize that not all opportunities in this market are created equal. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

And yet recent trends are proving that their best just isn't good enough. This will create market forces for improvements that don't fully exist today. occupational therapy or rehab), and many more.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The shortage of transport capacity relative to demand will have a profound effect on businesses. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend. But often the legal obstacles confronting startups have been put in place by companies that look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against new market entrants. Startups Can Do Anything. to stifle competition.).

Company 8

Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Traditionally in the United States, companies were bound to the communities in which they operated. Communication and transport costs forced most firms to sell relatively close to where they produced. The key question now is whether business leaders in America will allow this trend to continue or act to reverse it.

Transportation 10

Transportation Short-term Influence Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In my view, these events speak to a larger trend underway in natural resources that will affect every company in the sector. The response mechanism I've observed in most companies is isolation: Create a channel of isolation through which the company can extract, process, and transport the commodity. Isolation is a compelling paradigm.

Industry 8

Industry Politics Operations Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. Organizations that capitalize on this trend will ensure that as information eats the enterprise, they''ll be the ones satiated.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Nonetheless, CareMore’s leaders decided to move ahead and launched a Medicaid care-delivery program in Memphis and Des Moines, serving 8,000 to 10,000 patients in each market. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

About this forecast To create this forecast, the Stevens team conducted a dynamic forecasting computer-based simulation, which considered consumer purchasing behavior, insurance revenue calculation, automobile market sales, and new insurance sub-categories. This is significant for a roughly $200 billion market.

Insurance 10

Insurance Software Business Model Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Supporting this trend is a tremendous increase in capital available for “impact investing.” Joel Jackson (a 2011 Echoing Green fellow) launched Mobius Motors as a social purpose car manufacturer to democratize transportation in East Africa. And when we asked these entrepreneurs why, some of their reasons were just plain bad.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. In addition, customers everywhere are looking for more — including more services — from manufacturers. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. 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. Businesses can use these trends to reconnect with their customers and their communities.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

If you operate in a competitive industry, it’s worth investing money in trying to keep your star players. If you want to buy a warehouse, you don’t need to be in the city center, but being close to transport links will be hugely beneficial.

Long-term 50

Long-term Budgeting Cost Outsourcing 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. However being aware of industry trends, competitive positioning, who the thought leaders are, etc. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2024

For sellers, online auctions offer an effective way of reaching a global market, with the potential to garner higher bids due to the increased competition. The ability to track and analyze bidding patterns gives sellers actionable insights into the actual market value of their machinery.

Due Diligence 106

Due Diligence Participative Price Efficiency 106

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Africa shows every sign of being the world’s next big growth market. It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. lucydphoto/Getty Images. billion by 2050. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. Market focus. This helps the centers increase efficiency, maintain quality standards, track disease trends, and collect demographic information.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8