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Complimentary Resource – How to Leverage SRM For Supply Chain Resiliency

Strategy Driven

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Motivate with a Memorable “Vision Phrase” that Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

The foundation is projected to touch the lives of 50,000 children by 2014. Off the field, Dalton and his wife Jordan run a foundation that helps seriously ill and physically challenged children and families in the greater Cincinnati area.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990?

Deming Institute

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. They know their own work, but they don’t understand the connections to other departments (or even to others performing different roles within their same department). Care gets delayed.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

This is typical of the stage of Big Bang Disruption we refer to as “Entropy,” when the supply chain supporting products and services displaced by a disruptive innovation collapse into a kind of economic black hole. In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. The small-scale project would test a possible solution in a low-risk way, in 100 days or less, and without the pressure of having to be right.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict.