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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

This means that logistics companies need to rethink their fulfillment processes. The fulfillment process is well-trodden territory for brick-and-mortar retailers: packages come directly to the stores at predictable intervals. The proximity to urban areas allows parcels to get delivered faster, which is a key differentiator.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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The Importance of Risk Assessment in Business

Strategy Driven

Risks are part and parcel of everyday life. Externally, there are political issues, interest and exchange rates, new market competitors, and financial risks such as investments. Risk management is the process of identifying risks , problems or disasters before they happen. The business world is no different. What should you do?

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Women Leaders and Male Partnership In any learning process, there is a tendency to go. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina?

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. The global business environment is decomposing into smaller yet more profitable markets, so businesses can no longer rely on scaling up to compete, but must instead embrace a new economies of unscale. That has now changed.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. The challenge sponsors picked the best ones, and they are responsible for eventually rolling out the product, service, or process improvement. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,