Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

So, in August the Transformation Team divided into Theme Teams that were responsible for achieving all the objectives in each strategic theme: new products, sales, quality, supply chain execution, and organization. Now in the middle of 2013, they are on track to beat this year’s goal to surpass 2012’s profits by 25%.

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Balanced Scorecard Workshop Supply Chain Objective 95

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency. Max also oversaw the TW:IN trend spotter network until 2013, hosting meetups everywhere from Johannesburg to Manila. Right now, at this very minute, there are hundreds if not thousands of brands out there heightening your customers’ expectations.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

But McDonald’s is already going through great lengths to ensure good working conditions in the other direction in its value chain. The Fair Labor Association was created in the 1990s to bring together companies, civil society organizations, and colleges and universities to protect factory workers’ rights in complex global supply chains.

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Supply Chain Compliance Franchising How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. carmakers than for their Asian counterparts, and may accumulate with each tier of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm). Social media makes supply chains transparent, and consumers will hold the retailers responsible more than ranchers or slaughterhouses.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Hospitals run out of medications or supplies due to poor supply chain design (due to choosing the low cost supplier or trying to cut corners on inventory due to a misapplication of “just in time” principles). Care gets delayed. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. ” She continues: “Since 2013, two incidents of sexual harassment have been identified. We also published an accompanying toolkit, called #NowWhat ?, aimed at stakeholders invested in changing this reality.

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Supply Chain Power Report Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Nike subsequently became an innovator in supply chain accountability and promulgated a rigorous supplier code of conducts, accompanied by third-party factory inspections. Internal advocates for safety and labor rights in the supply chain have become powerful contenders within Nike.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. cut of sales.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Coca-Cola devotes many resources to creating cleaner water supplies in developing countries. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers. Almost all the major car companies are investing in electric vehicles.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Strategic talent constraints are typically described in vast interconnected global supply chains and high-tech knowledge jobs like software engineers and research scientists.

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Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

In a 2013 advertisement in The Washington Post, HP claimed that if you measured countries by power consumption in kilowatts, the fifth largest after China, the U.S., What we don’t see behind the scenes in every consumption moment is a long chain of physical impacts and draws on resources. Russia, and India would be the cloud.

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Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Part of this story relates to the provenance, or origins, of its products: Chains that provide more upmarket “fast casual” dining such as Panera, Chipotle, and Shake Shack have brands that speak of freshness, health, and trustworthy sourcing. McDonald’s woes offers three lessons for others about supply-chain transparency.

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Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. To make a significant, sustainable positive impact on society, they are re-examining their business models, re-designing their supply chains, re-inventing products, and re-thinking what they sell and how they sell it.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. If you want to go after the health care system, you need to understand what information is needed at diagnosis, how does it then go through the supply chain, etc. We're also hiring more doctors.

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Survey CEO Insurance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

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. Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down. That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

In the World Economic Forum''s Global Risks 2013 report, the respondents named "rising greenhouse gas emissions" as the third most likely risk to the global economy (after inequity and deficits/debt). More companies are taking a proactive role in climate policy, and for good reasons.

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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

In 2013, the multinational contract manufacturer Flextonics — which makes products for Apple and Microsoft — began offering Lab IX , a service that connects startups with manufacturing partners.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. However, there are some risks. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. When Groupon acquired Blink Booking in 2013, it saw lots of value in the hotel clients and customers that Blink had established through painstaking door-to-door sales.

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Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

However, with China’s growth slowing over the past two years, costs shooting up, the government making life difficult for multinational companies, and confusion following the reforms emanating from the Third Plenum in November 2013, some companies are heading in the opposite direction.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The resulting devaluation will force Greeks to buy domestic products rather than import them although some companies will struggle to keep their supply chains running. However, tourism and exports will get a boost. That will lead to more instability, which could hurt the fragile global economy.

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Restructuring Banking Supply Chain Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Only you have the specific transaction, "John Smith bought peas, bread, and grape nehi at 9:27 AM on March 11, 2013," and the tens of thousands like it each day! Further, they can combine John Smith's transaction with others to better understand buying patterns, improve their supply chains, lay stores out more effectively, and so forth.

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Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. In data-intensive fields like marketing and supply chain management, the results and decisions that robotic algorithms provide is likely to be more accurate than those made by human intuition. . $4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Unfortunately, health care as an industry continues hiring far faster than demand is growing, adding 119,000 new workers in the first half of 2013, for example, with little increase in patient volume. Fortunately, we anticipate demand for health care to grow in 2014, so to the extent that jobs are not added, productivity gains are possible.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

He eventually headed up the company’s development business before becoming the company’s president in 2013. Teddy admired the organization’s mission and reinvention of the retail supply chain, so he went back to his brother and told him, “I want to work for you.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Its core e-retailing model, with its hyper-efficient supply chain, turned the retail world on its head. Amazon continues to be the world’s best example of a serial business model innovator. It has subsequently launched three successive disruptive business models.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In your testimony to Congress on May 21, 2013, when you explained Apple’s tax practices, you said: “You can tell the story of Apple’s success in just one word: innovation.” Yes, Apple already has some sustainability initiatives in its supply chain and other areas. But it can do much more.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables.

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Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. This year, Walmart finally added a key element to its impressive green supply chain efforts. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. The successful ones have, at least. But even worse sociopolitical outcomes are in the cards. The Necessity of Nonmarket Strategies.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

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. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Perhaps U.S.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8