Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. The choice is truly that stark.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 19, 2015

These leaders understand that while modern technological advances might change the way we connect, work, and share ideas, it doesn’t change what matters to us – what’s in our hearts and what makes us feel like we’re making a difference with our lives.

Leadership 100

Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Apparel 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Technological advances based on the Bartender model will also push the boundaries of healthcare into new retail frontiers.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

The emergence of the iPhone and smart technology completely altered the way consumers interact with media and brands. Nike, once an athletic apparel brand telling stories of athletic solo willpower, has now taken on a systemic nature by introducing brand experiences , such as Nike Plus, Nike Plus Training Club, Nike Plus Running Club, etc.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. Sponsored by DXC Technology. At Procter & Gamble, for instance, technology says it’s time to remind parents about Pampers, while analytics says that direct marketing is the best way to do it. Insight Center.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

But his framework also offers a model for rethinking the traditional four P’s of marketing: product , price , place , and promotion. And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. Maslow sought to map the psychological needs of humans and their motivations.

Loyalty 14

Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

In the lean-manufacturing context, in contrast, assembly line workers learn to execute a variety of production tasks, take responsibility for product quality, and are encouraged to find ways to improve the production process. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The right technologies, however, can be incredibly valuable, driving customer satisfaction and possibly even providing a sustainable competitive advantage. Start by identifying those, and then use digital technology to alleviate them. The second lever is to use digital technology to materially improve customer service.

Trends 9

Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. .”

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

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.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. Second, companies can use machines to supercharge the productivity and effectiveness of workers in unprecedented ways. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

manufacturers were doing about bringing production back to the United States and what factors were driving their decision process. production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). So if your company made production-sourcing decisions five, seven, or 10 years ago, it may need to revisit those decisions today.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 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. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

At many of the largest companies, in industries like aerospace and technology, limited budgets are not an obstacle. Are they looking for ideas to streamline operations and serve customers better, or developing new business models around existing products? Lack of budget (41% of respondents.).

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

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. 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

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Sectors calling for action included banking (Bank of America, Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo), the apparel industry (including Levi, Gap, Adidas, VF), and the World Economic Forum, which brought 79 CEOs together to urge action. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

We'll only fix the problem if the largest, most profitable, and most powerful brands demand better treatment for all people who work on a product. Our system of competition yields amazing results — incredible technological innovation provided in massive quantities very quickly. But Apple too should be doing far more.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

On the Sephora Beauty Board, community members can upload photos of their favorite “looks” with the makeup products that made it possible. Click on a product and you can make a purchase. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. High-tech and high-touch.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. The most widely used metric among our respondents, for instance, was revenue being generated by new products or services over the course of their first few years in the market.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. Is CDO the next step for the aspiring CIO-Plus?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

One such customer is Morning Star , a world leader in the production of industrial tomato paste. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Fashion apparel is an excellent example. Traditionally, it trucked tomatoes to its processing facilities in California and then converted them into tomato paste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

When I would listen to CEOs, I heard them say things like we're going to use five percent less materials in five years or make a product with 10 percent less material. The CEO said: "I want our products to be made again." The product design changes. But when you play it out, it just doesn't work. It's a huge challenge.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In the case of solar, vast investments in production capacity in China have quickly brought down the cost of panels — a jaw-dropping 65 percent slide in just 18 months. Once technologies take off, doublings can happen pretty fast — just ask the investors in the Internet, mobile or social media. solar market).

Energy 8

Energy Apparel Cost Entrepreneur 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. Apple succeeded in forging the initial ground-breaking deals with the five major record labels in 2002 which underpinned its disruptive business model, thanks to its large user base and its technological credibility.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. As with other sustainability issues, the social and business consequences are inseparable. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. Disclosure:Anheuser-Busch is a former client.)

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8