Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the marketplace model today. There is the technology and there is business process development, both go hand-in-hand to form a complete marketplace ecosystem.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. IBM is doing something similar in data analytics. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, our experience has been that [when a product fails] it’s not a technology problem or a pure R&D problem — it is really around marketing, customer segments, and of course pricing. Third, the companies with the most pricing power use technological tools to measure value and willingness to pay in a systematic way.

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Unlike much larger companies, midsized firms usually lack deep operational and technological talent who can quickly recognize, understand, and resolve huge systems glitches.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. . “Does this mean that all our procurement bids will be determined by machine?”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). For example, it implemented an Internet service that answers the question "Where's my refund?"

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

At Esquel Group, we have been committed to this philosophy over the last three decades and are trying to promote it beyond our corporate boundary. We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

Management 10

Management Software BPM Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Get rid of the buybacks, and there will be lots of money for other constructive programs to reward employees for their commitment to the company.

Innovation 9

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. Advances in manufacturing technology. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Ethics Automotive 8