Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

After all, there are over 30 million small businesses operating around the United States. Most people love getting free apparel of any kind. Succeeding in business can be an uphill battle. That stacks up to a huge degree of competition. The result? It informs public perception of your product/service and facilitates future custom.

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Brand Apparel Stress B2B 76

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In 2014 a young employee of American Apparel tasked with finding a picture to fit in with a 4th of July celebration posted a picture of what turned out to be the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding to the corporate Tumblr account. Always keep tabs on the competition and any key developments in the field in which you operate.

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Press Release Apparel Brand Media 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. In the mid-2000s, Nike embarked on a program to introduce lean manufacturing to its apparel suppliers in the developing world. Insight Center.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 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.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

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. It’s imperative that brands operating in Bangladesh join collaborations like these. But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

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Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. 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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations. New operations.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

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.

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Cost Productivity Products Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

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Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 11

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Management power rests with focused strategies on two product categories, athletic shoes and apparel.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Mines are immense operations that can impoverish people and land — or create jobs and build the economy. A combination of high quality, glamour, celebrity, and attitude.

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Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

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Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. North American restaurant chain Panera Bread is experimenting with a nonprofit variation, where the company donates a number of existing stores to its "Panera Cares" foundation.

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Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

“They advised us to retain that as a strong part of who we are,” said Paul Choquette, a fifth-generation Gilbane who runs the Mid-Atlantic operation. billion, operated in an average of 15 countries, and had an average of 12,000 employees. “There’s a feel to a family business that clients in our space like.

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B2B Press Release Construction Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. don’t acquire another retailer and operate it separately) and to create more value for its core customers. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. It might be too late to save Sears.

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Retail Brand Airlines Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries).

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Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

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. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller one. While we readily recognize such a hazard in the food and apparel industries and the need to "secure" all elements of their production chain, most other industries have yet to recognize such a hazard.

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Morale Apparel Ethics Media 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? Stitch Fix, which lives and dies by the quality of its suggestions, has no choice but to do better.

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Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others.

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Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

In Brazil and India , small apparel shops use messaging to alert recurring customers when a new collection has arrived and to share pictures and videos of their products. As businesses start creating messaging operations, they’d be wise to understand what customers don’t want to see from companies on these platforms.

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Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The best thing to share will depend heavily on the product - the labels on energy hogs like light bulbs, air conditioners, and cars should tell us the total energy use and cost to operate over a year or the product's lifetime. For milk or snacks, the energy used to get it to shelves makes sense, but again, may not be helpful for consumers.

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Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. And so that’s what we’re seeing the business leaders of tomorrow do — is champion a shift to this new kind of operating model of work.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Whether it’s a social fitness app (like sports apparel company Under Armour’s dashboard ) or an immersive experience (consider how Tesla feels more like an intelligent driving partner than a traditional car), a software layer distinguishes the product by incorporating into people’s daily lives.

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Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Among its intimate apparel store peers — who are in the business of helping women find the perfect undergarments through a sometimes thrilling and at other times exasperating process — Journelle stands out. Journelle in New York City is no ordinary store. inventory counting) from sales staff.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In another example, GSMA, the trade body representing mobile operators, has developed a framework to collaborate in maximizing their contribution towards the SDGs, in particular improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, providing quality education, and acting on climate.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8