Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Technological (pace and changes in technology). Opportunities and Threats. Cultural (values, ethics).

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SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

As recently as ten years ago, it took a lot longer to design and launch products, or even companies for that matter. But with improvements in technology, resources and cash available globally things happen much more quickly. They sat by and watched their vaunted products, and in some cases the companies themselves, wither on the vine.

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Supply Chain Banking Analysis Globalization 120

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Moderated by Mr Chaminda de Silva (MBA), GM of Orel Corporation, the session focused on the need for collaboration among multiple divisions, hiring for attitude, avoiding price wars, and driving the efficiency of labour. We’ll have to keep learning and adapting to new technologies and working practices emerge.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Competitive technology innovations that could adversely impact your business.

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Leadership PR Disintermediation Supply Chain 353

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. manufacturers were doing about bringing production back to the United States and what factors were driving their decision process. However, the price of oil then tripled in the last decade.

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Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. 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. Why are companies having such a hard time raising prices?

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Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger. hectares of farmland. But this is about to change.

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Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". To deliver goods and services at that singular instance, industries will adopt production and distribution models. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to the Guardian , approximately 45% of all fruits and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, and 20% of meat and dairy products are wasted by suppliers, retailers, and consumers every year. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Partner with farmers in the supply chain. billion to 9.8

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Today, the marketplace business is no more about massive catalogs of different categories of products. Instead, marketplaces are creating ecosystems for their customers.

Retail 120

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

The supply chain for German cars is significantly more globalized than it was a decade and a half ago. The difference is explained by the phenomenon of “production fragmentation,” in which different firms (and countries) specialize in producing different parts of a final good. Global business Supply chain'

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Supply Chain Skills Intellectual Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

One option, of course, is to drive up the stock price by buying back shares, and some CEOs may choose that course. For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. Investing in the supply chain. Supply chains are undergoing a transformation in almost every industry we study.

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Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Shoppers gauged quality by the look and feel of a product. As more companies struggle to find their niche with the modern consumer, they’re turning to new technologies to recreate this sensory experience. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Historically, shopping has been a sensory experience. billion valuation within five years.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. On the plateau of oil supply, prices are trapped on a narrow ledge. Yergin's assertions.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. But no matter which definition you use, it’s hard to see Tesla fitting it.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Grocers are watching customers make fewer trips to stores, and many chains are in a prolonged price war, with prices declining 1.3% Another way to survive is to raise the price dramatically by going super-premium or by becoming very focused in local markets. This FDA-approved technology creates multiple benefits.

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Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

The company had experienced no organic growth in over a decade, the stock price had melted away and it was seeking growth in all the wrong places. No one “owned” the full supply chain, and as a result it was leaky, unreliable, hard to trace and rife with corruption. We soon figured out why. How did Verghese do it?

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

But China also has a huge domestic market for fake goods: many consumers who buy counterfeits do so deliberately, because they want to pay a lower price for goods that look expensive. A store that guarantees the authenticity of all products it sells is a big relief for them. Invest in anti-counterfeit technology. Insight Center.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Merchandising Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds, meanwhile, are a cause of heated debate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. One of the more popular business mantras to hit town recently has been: “Forget products, think platform!” So online grocery is hard, and doing it profitably demands extraordinary levels of efficiency powered by the creative application of technology and automation.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

But last week the New York Times also hit us with two powerful articles about Apple's supply chain that revealed some deeply troubling issues for the company's business model. Combine Apple's incredible earnings with the reality of life in its supply chain, and it's clear that the tech giant could afford to do much better by workers.

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Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. Consider how global value chains are evolving.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc.,

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Even oil giants from Europe (including BP, Eni, Shell, Statoil, Total) advocated for a price on carbon. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. Consumers (finally) show interest in sustainable products. In the U.S., in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable. ” 8.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Today, the marketplace business is no more about massive catalogs of different categories of products. Instead, marketplaces are creating ecosystems for their customers.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Or was our product not up-to-snuff versus the competition? There's a natural tendency to assume that the losing salespeople lacked sales prowess that the winner possessed or their product was far inferior in some way. Customers are never 100 percent sure they are purchasing the right product. Was it something I said?

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Wealthier shoppers have become used to buying the products they want when they want them, whether that’s shouting out an order to Alexa, discovering an item while browsing through Pinterest, or using their mobile phone to buy a bunch of stuff during their morning commute. More price-sensitive shoppers are also changing their habits.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Price Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

While most of the discussion revolved around reducing emissions targets, global leaders also discussed the need for a circular economy , which essentially involves decoupling economic growth from the extraction and consumption of scarce resources with negative footprints and making existing resources productive for as long as possible.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Managements may want to dramatically improve productivity but they're decidedly mixed about comparably increasing their accountability. Of course, engineering design and test should be held accountable, but more sophisticated data-driven analytics makes the cost-driven, compliance-oriented supply chain employee culpable, as well.

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Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

This kind of competition often drives consolidation mergers, in which two firms combine their production and sales. For example, Express Scripts and Anthem were partners in the medical supply chain. national interest by threatening technology leakage or undermining the health of U.S. competitors.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8