CEO Insider

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The need for remote work solutions prioritized a shift to the cloud – and for some organizations, that meant choosing short-term or patchwork solutions jerry-rigged out of existing legacy technologies just to get through the crisis.

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Short-term Magazine Crisis Technology 143

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We all experience the extra challenges, stresses and anxiety brought on by this pandemic – in addition to the regular stresses of life. Instead, the most important thing a leader can do in times of volatility and stress is to lead with compassion. COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. It affects every person from executive to staff.

How To 94

How To Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 94

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We all experience the extra challenges, stresses and anxiety brought on by this pandemic – in addition to the regular stresses of life. Instead, the most important thing a leader can do in times of volatility and stress is to lead with compassion. COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. It affects every person from executive to staff.

How To 65

How To Leadership Uncertainty Long-term 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We all experience the extra challenges, stresses and anxiety brought on by this pandemic – in addition to the regular stresses of life. Instead, the most important thing a leader can do in times of volatility and stress is to lead with compassion. COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. It affects every person from executive to staff.

Leadership 65

Leadership Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 65

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion?

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Did you know there’s two definitions of collaboration in the Oxford dictionary? The first is “the action of working with someone to produce something”. Which is what we mean when we say we want collaboration. The second is “traitorous communication with an enemy”. Which is sometimes how it feels when collaboration isn’t working.

Magazine 131

Magazine Definition Supply Chain Talent Management 131

CEO Insider

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chris Brogan, author, keynote speaker, Chief of Staff to the CEO of Appfire, and an all-around good guy, began a practice in 2006 that I’ve always admired. It’s called My Three Words. I have not always adopted it consistently over the years, but when I have, I found it to be everything Chris suggests it […].

Magazine 122

Magazine CEO Supply Chain Talent Management 122

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As someone who spends most of his time working in a language that is not my mother tongue, I’m aware I spend perhaps more time than most considering the meanings of words. It’s always interesting to me how different aspects of the same idea are illuminated by the names we give them. As a CEO […].

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Magazine CEO Supply Chain Talent Management 115

CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The banking sector is one of the most critical aspects of a country’s economy, despite their preferred economic systems. Banks play a critical role in an economy by facilitating funds allocation from the savers to borrowers.

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Banking System Management Magazine 111

CEO Insider

AUGUST 25, 2021

I learned a few leadership lessons from my living room in 2020 – where I raised my nine-year-old daughter as I worked alongside her – that other executives might find useful in their careers. 2020 was a year of many firsts for almost all of us. For me, it was my first year as a […].

Magazine 111

Magazine Leadership Career Execution 111

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A solution that is situationally appropriate and highly adaptable to unanticipated stresses is, in a way, “best&# , but rarely shows up in the “solutions&# literature. link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

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.,

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Looked at in this light, the terrible delay in finding Flight 370 can be seen as a failure of management practice to keep up with new technology. My take on this lapse is that there’s a gap between the power of IoT technology, and management’s ability to conceive strategies to capitalize on it, which I refer to as “IoT Thinking.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In his speech at COP21 European Union Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs, and Fisheries Karmenu Vella stressed the need to switch to a more circular economy. Employing a circular supply chain would help make processes, such as product design, procurement, and waste management, more efficient and productive.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

But deploying tools and technologies explicitly designed to test their veracity? The App and Android stores now offer — for entertainment purposes only, of course — real-time "voice stress analyzers" offering insight into whether the person you're talking with is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Technology Software Video 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

” He talked about how stressful and debilitating it was for ticket agents, gate agents, and flight attendants to deal with rude and ill-mannered flyers. As both a technology and retailer innovator — not unlike Amazon! Customers Information & technology Innovation' That distinction’s not subtle.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

While it’s easy to think that vast technology-enabled networks aren’t as real or valuable as the old-fashioned, face-to-face variety, research doesn’t support that view. Do you need some examples of where a new technology is being used to bolster your business case? No problem — your network can help.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Mentor Stress Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a weekday and Jeff, the director of technology at Economical Insurance, kisses his daughter and waves goodbye as she enters the doors of her public school. It also increased job satisfaction and decreased stress, particularly for parents with children at home. Kolbz/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Policies Insurance Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. . “Does this mean that all our procurement bids will be determined by machine?”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

based shale oil producers have improved their drilling and fracturing technology, and they can ramp up production in an appraised field in as few as six months at a small fraction of the capital investment required by their conventional rivals. As a result, shale oil has soared from about 10% of total U.S. crude oil production to about 50%.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Ken Powell, the CEO of General Mills says “human-caused greenhouse gas causes climate change and climate volatility and that’s going to stress the agricultural supply chain ” — as in, the system that feeds us. Leading CEOs are seeing the work to manage climate change as a strategic and human imperative.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location. As a broader observation of this point, consider Rocket Internet.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Collaborations among energy producers and users, for example, can help scale technologies such as solar PV and wind power that require only negligible amounts of water.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. What exactly is an analytics translator? Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. All of these approaches must extend across the firm and be practiced by contractors down the supply chain.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Yet, neither BP and the U.S.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. To remedy that, we’ve taped price lists to supply cabinets in some ORs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Simply put, business is the 800-pound gorilla where this issue is concerned: 80% of global trade is orchestrated by supply chains of multinational firms. Subsidiarity itself can be seen as just one of a range of approaches that stress selectivity in terms of pursuing initiatives that require cross-border coordination.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8