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Is Social Accountability Changing Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

As consumers are more and more demanding that they see the provenance of items they purchase to ensure they align with their values, leaders are being forced to rethink their supply chain and the materials that they use. Cognitive Empathy.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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The Silent Killer of New Products: Lazy Pricing

Harvard Business Review

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Now, let's assume that Egypt's political instability will be short-lived so that, after a one-time impact to the current year's profits, operations will resume on a steady new path. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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You Can’t Make Good Predictions Without Embracing Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Operations in a Connected World. In each case, the team related the uncertainty to the scale of the supply-chain disruption it caused, creating a quantified assessment of the uncertainty involved. The team then quantified each of those probabilities in terms of the scale of supply-chain disruption they would cause.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. The efficiencies come with 100% robotic operation.". While that was a fictitious scene, it was the type of statement that would make anybody raise an eyebrow.