HR Digest

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you don’t want to follow strict rules around specific colors or fabrics, it could be beneficial to loosen up and choose casual apparel instead of full-on business suits. We’ve here some examples of how this apparel style can be used in different kinds of business situations, so you know exactly when to apply these styles.

Apparel 52

Apparel Real Estate Short-term Banking 52

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 2, 2012

Product managers in coalition organizations know this all too well. My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names. Instead, product and brand managers are organized into coalitions that serve as a resource one to another. Once again this is a personal development issue. Authenticity.

Leadership 200

Leadership Apparel Productivity Products 200

Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 6, 2019

Gildan is one of the world’s largest vertically-integrated manufacturers of basic apparel with over 50 000 employees worldwide. Gildan uses CoachingOurselves, the approach created by Henry Mintzberg and Phil LeNir, as part of their leadership development program for managers with over 113 participants, in more than 8 countries. _.

Case Study 30

Case Study Globalization Mintzberg Apparel 30

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In political campaigns, people literally clothe themselves in the apparel of leaders to share in their qualities. How do leaders develop loyal, sometimes rabid, followers? People who want to feel smart follow leaders they perceive as smart. Leaders act the way followers would like to feel. It doesn’t happen in one step.

Apparel 89

Apparel Motivation Influence Quality 89

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

The Economist 's June 2 article " Following the footprints " explores the latest developments in carbon reporting and what companies are learning as they wade into the challenges of measurement. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition offers a glimpse of one such effort. In 2008, Dairy Management Inc.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

We are on the verge of a major upheaval in the way inventory is managed. In order to make effective use of this new data and to stay competitive, managers will need to redesign their supply-chain processes. Prescriptive analytics, however, has eluded most users of Big Data to date.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Now, you will have to translate your strategic thinking into a value creation plan that your management team and board will embrace. Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Meanwhile, Subaru extends well-matched offerings at the right time in the consumer life cycle, from prepurchase targeting to end-of-lease management and loyalty incentives to repurchase. Retailer relationships can impose varying levels of constraint in D2C selling — less for apparel, perhaps, and more for CPG.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Second, they’re specific enough to help senior management make trade-offs. Yet change they must. ” Third, effective principles stay brief. .”

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Today, still under the marvelous management of Tony Hsieh, Zappos sales are well over $2 billion. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. Hsieh recognized that it would take further innovation to reach more customers in other segments of the vast apparel market. is around $225 billion.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Because of the constraints imposed on real estate development by Beijing, the demand for steel, and scrap, is likely to flatten and even fall. China will therefore manage to produce the steel it needs without relying on US imports. Bangladesh, Mexico, Vietnam, and other developing countries simply don't have the workforce to step in.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. Two-thirds of small business managers declare to have been negatively affected by weather over the last three years. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. Global business Risk management Supply chain'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The breakthrough comes when the largest companies in a sector decide to develop a sustainability index they will all live by, as is happening now in the apparel and footwear industry. Common measurements lead to cooperative management, and the pieces fall into place.

Cost 8

Cost Productivity Products Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

We also find that companies in developed areas plan to hire in other developed regions (e.g., North America in Western Europe and vice versa) and many countries in developing regions are moving into developed regions (e.g., Global business Talent management' Asia into North America).

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Bonobos was one of the first vertically integrated online apparel companies — specializing in men's pants. In our article, we call this barrier to disruption the ecosystem barrier; or the barrier that emerges when certain customers can't get the job done without the development of new businesses.

Retail 9

Retail Apparel Christensen Discount 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Are they looking for ideas to streamline operations and serve customers better, or developing new business models around existing products? To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

How do some brands manage to resonate so strongly with the public that they seem to get woven into the fibers of culture? As the company releases a constant stream of videos, conferences, apparel, equipment, and music, the brand has become a phenomenon. It started with a bold vision.

Long-term 8

Long-term Trends Brand Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. But when managers reduce prices, a fundamental question sometimes goes unasked: Will customers notice and respond as expected? Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world.

Price 14

Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

It was the stuff of Silicon Valley lore : Employees from across the company took a break from their regular projects to develop mind-blowing ideas about artificial intelligence over an intense 24-hour period. At their best, hackathons create a structure and process around idea development. Facebook recently hosted its 50th hackathon.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Perhaps my favorite example is the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge.

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. It's not enough to change one company.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Financial services companies co-manage loans and share risks. Competitors in the auto, computer, and apparel industries frequently rely on the same suppliers and distributors, and to keep them healthy need to make sure that the overall industry does well.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

By applying sophisticated big data analytical techniques, we have developed a method for optimizing the customer experience investments that directly drive increased emotional connection and, thereby, greater customer value and financial returns.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Successful companies develop a system of a few truly unique capabilities that help them create differentiated value for their chosen customers. Kmart, by contrast, has failed to develop a unique or differentiated way to play, and all that goes with it. What drives some companies to succeed while others languish?

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. You are likely to discover, along the way, that you lack the capabilities you need, and must develop them from scratch.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Instead, leaders of these companies excel at five unconventional acts — management practices that contradict conventional wisdom. Instead, they are clear-minded about what they do best, developing a solid value proposition and building distinctive capabilities that will last for the long term. .”

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? We now see they are also struggling to do a good job managing their own talent responsibilities.

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

.” “Vibrant family businesses around the world know the limitless value of connecting their families to their stakeholders in messaging and all elements of business,” said Joe Astrachan, Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Kennesaw State University. “Family is important to the feel of our company.”

B2B 8

B2B Press Release Construction Brand 8