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

Strategy Driven

However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. The latest trend in last mile delivery management focuses on the localization of distribution, where the goal is to leverage the existing infrastructure and optimize it through technology.

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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

Whether you are a potential new business owner or someone who has been in the game for years, you knew how your industry operated before, and you at least had an idea of how to navigate within that system. However, even they have to monitor the latest dietary trends. However, others will operate in a vastly different fashion.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. The administration also needs time to work on the reporting requirements that will be part and parcel of making the system work.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. ✓ You need operational, personal, and strategic networks to get things done, to develop personally and professionally, and to step up to leadership.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

But they are constantly scanning the horizon for big enough market insights ; for that next game-changing idea; for the trend that will upset current market conditions and create opportunity. They ask themselves big, searching questions like: "What new trends and technologies could possibly undercut our current business?" "Are

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