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Change in the Supply Chain: High Tech's New Growth in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

High tech companies operate in a complex supply chain environment where rapid product life cycles and narrow margins put constant pressure on market share and financial performance. Although the industry was hit hard by the global recession, U.S.-based based high tech executives believe the picture for exports has improved.

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Gain Advantage with Predictive Analytics (Webinar)

Harvard Business Review

Analytics expert Tom Davenport recently talked with HBR about the way firms are using predictive analytics across their organizations, from marketing to supply chains, to gain competitive advantage. Listen here (computer required): View webinar: A conversation with Tom Davenport.

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How Can Big Data and Analytics Spur Innovation in New Markets?

Harvard Business Review

In Asia, the applications are endless: Forecasting the revenues of a new business unit; pinpointing bottlenecks in the regional supply chain; even searching for niches in unwieldy consumer markets. Global business'

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker! Catch up here.

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The Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". The full Webinar is available here. billion by 2030.

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Maximizing Your Global Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

Market indexes are up, international trade is rebounding, and commodity prices are up across the board. All this points to the need to look for the opportunities, particularly in the emerging markets, if you want to optimize your global supply chain, says Emory University International Business Professor Jeff Rosenswieg.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Investors' aversion to physical-product start-ups is understandable — the two recent asset-bubble-induced recessions proved that these companies' need for materials, supply chains, distribution networks, and labor hampers them from responding quickly to sudden declines in sales.

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