HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

. “Since the onset of COVID-19, the business world has experienced a tumultuous journey marked by economic disruptions, including shutdowns, a dynamic rebound, supply chain challenges, and a fiercely competitive talent market,” Horton notes. McCarthy’s insights intertwine with Anthony Horton’s perspectives.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Changes could range from adjustments to the rules of origin for product content, and more-stringent labor standards, to the extreme of withdrawal and a return to World Trade Organization most-favored-nation tariffs. These shifts will have important implications for the supply chain and profitability of U.S.-based

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Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 13, 2019

A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), together with help from Amazon, JD, the Toyota Research Institute and the National Science Foundation, have developed a robotic system that aims to automate the job of sorting waste for recycling.

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Objective Supply Chain Video Technology 67

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

By becoming SQF certified, you’re demonstrating your commitment to providing your supply chain and clients with products of the highest quality. The program is developed and managed by the SQF Institute. To Broaden Your Market Reach. Would you like to read more great content like this? Read on to learn more.

How To 65

How To Supply Chain Document Licensing 65

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. I’d love to see research sources supporting your contention, which is an interesting one.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? Catch up here.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Does your organization have the “market power” to implement the scenario? Identify whether your organization has the ability, based on market size and/or influence, to get other parties to participate in a consortium. Once that is defined, identify which audiences will respond to that content and what its value is.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Marketing has entered its “uncanny valley” moment. Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination. Sales & Marketing. And that’s off-putting. It’s worth trying to get right.

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Marketing Content Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action. High-performing marketing organizations have developed a more agile style of working to keep their brands competitive amid rapid marketplace shifts.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” These programs are essentially an online form of direct marketing. Today smart marketers do know which half isn’t working.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

The potential size of the worldwide online grocery market combined with these spin-off opportunities is why grocery really is the holy grail of online retail. It’s an “at scale” game in each local market, and having scale in your home market does not help you enter another one.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Supply chain management should be implemented. Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 69

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” These programs are essentially an online form of direct marketing. Today smart marketers do know which half isn’t working.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Company CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Within marketing the silos are collapsing.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority. Investing in the supply chain.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

The supply chain for German cars is significantly more globalized than it was a decade and a half ago. That trend is visible in the context of German car manufacturing: Globalization, and the resulting fragmentation of supply chains, hasn’t just shifted the geography of production. Global business Supply chain'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Skills Intellectual Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. Her research found that another 26 percent have created the service level, but not the reusable components that make developing new offerings fast and efficient.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Why are supply chains structured this way with tiers of component makers who assemble progressively larger pieces? The supply chain looks like a web with many tiers, and each major sub-component has its own web. Regions that have thick markets of suppliers have a big advantage. based assemblers of all kinds.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR. Define health care quality in market-relevant terms. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Purchase quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

The tech media is leaping on every bit of information that can be inferred from the Apple supply chain about the potential specs of the phone (for the record we are expecting Apple to introduce a big screen brother to the current phone and produce it in record numbers ).

Creativity 15

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector. In the long run, cryptocurrencies have the potential to change how internet services are delivered (Blockstack, IPFS); how open-source communities fund their development; how we crowdsource microtasks and expertise (21.co);

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

As Chief Marketing Officer Paul Matsen told me, "We use enterprise-wide standards. There is one marketing communications team, and we work across all our institutes, such as heart and vascular, or cancer. Another example at Cleveland Clinic is in search engine marketing. But it actually creates freedom within a structure.

Operations 8

Operations Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Wiersema 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

As Feng Zhu and Nathan Furr observe in their article “ Products to Platforms: Making the Leap “: “In a product business model, firms create value by developing differentiated products for specific customer needs, and they capture value by charging money for those items.

Process 11

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Effective execution became harder and harder, creating a vicious cycle of falling behind in the market, losing money, cancelling projects and shedding staff, all of which further damaged its ability to execute.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. Westend61/Getty Images.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

We isolated seven performance factors correlated to strong organizational performance as well as leadership strengths through IBM Watson’s content analysis tools as well as historical performance reviews of these leaders and their direct reports. ” They combine experience and emotion into well-developed intuition.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Its primary business model is to create content and sell ads.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone who has an iPhone, iPad, or Kindle knows that media are no longer created merely to be viewed — content is designed to be touched, tapped, stroked, fingered, fondled, and pinched. That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

This is particularly common in brand, supply chain, and R&D departments in large consumer packaged goods companies. In Microsoft’s case, design has never been at parity with other important business functions such as engineering and marketing. The product subsequently underperformed and was taken off the shelf.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Software B2B Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The audit committee of the board would not sign off on behalf of the deals, which just kept happening and developing secret lives of their own. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57