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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.

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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. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ). We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here !

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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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Everything You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know About the Pallet Industry

Harvard Business Review

Beyond Stereotypes A Portrait of Europe's White Working Class Financial Times What happens when an entire population is, as the FT''s Simon Kuper reports, "hit by deindustrialisation, economic crisis and the crumbling of the welfare state"? Consumer goods Supply chain Transportation'

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How Good Designers Think

Harvard Business Review

Good designers can act as a translator between functional silos as different as supply chain, marketing and R&D. Simon Rucker is an associate director at global design and innovation company Seymourpowell , based in London. Action: They Keep Going. The rest, as they say, is history.

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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. Not all these have proven to be as stable as investors might have liked, with riots, coups, military takeovers, and surprise election results introducing uncertainty. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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