Skip Prichard

APRIL 27, 2020

And then keep adapting as we learned more about how to deal with health issues, work-from-home issues, finances, family, school and technology. Well, for leaders like myself and my panelists, that was compounded by trying to help guide our teams and departments through hazards and processes we’ve never had to deal with before.

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Supply Chain Crisis Learning-by-Doing Finance 110

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

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? Here’s more insight from MHFA England.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. Developing expertise in a nascent area of growing importance can lead to promotions and other career opportunities.

Career 15

Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Adapted from. Strategy That Works.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win. That is playing development to win.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

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. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. 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

HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2021

Finance special emphasis on block chain and Cryptocurrency. Supply chain management. Collaborations and conflict resolution are good skills to leverage as, again, working in a team where most business is carried out online is an advantage. . Brand Management. Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning. Cloud computing.

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Skills Supply Chain Emotional Intelligence Affiliate Marketing 116

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Each meeting was cordial and the managers seemed to appreciate the input.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Power Engineering Group Facilitation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

And he or she must play demonstrably well with others on the team. Finding people with the right combination of competence, character and team skills isn't easy, of course, even if you conduct a long, carefully-orchestrated search. To find these people, you have to develop a long-term, very consistent strategy.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

To accommodate frequent, fundamental changes to business models, leading retailers generally follow three principles that have been developed through trial and error, often in the midst of disruption. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

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.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. And, if prediction falls outside of an acceptable range, we should hold our teams accountable for predicting poorly. Product development'

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Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. The group leverages a similar-sized contractor team. Business demand exceeds the team’s capacity to deliver. Is there a “right” way to structure these relationships?

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. In the US and Developed Europe women are 18% less likely to perceive they have the capability to start a business. And in the U.S.,

Globalization 11

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You can have terrific people working in the right teams and still not see the financial results you’re hoping for. Others maintain supply chains, handle logistics, and otherwise support those front-line troops. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions.

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Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In the process she developed managerial muscle in finance, human resources, governance, and IT, and, as a bonus, Bronwyn gained more flexibility in her schedule since she didn’t have external client demands driving her day-to-day work. Reshaping your current role is another way to grow on the plateau.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. When her firm decided to invest in start-ups, she was asked to put together a team to make it happen. Soon she was meeting regularly with the senior executive team about deals and overall strategy.

Career 9

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you were offered the opportunity to finance a high risk , low return investment, how eager would you be to write a check? We conflate inventors with developers of social enterprises and romanticize the celebrity social entrepreneur. How Banks Should Finance the Social Sector. Support the franchises. What Capitalism Can't Fix.

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Franchising Business Model Supply Chain Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Just last month, a self-organized team from another Indian company, Mahindra and Mahindra , (M&M) won the corporate award for our own $300 House Open Design Challenge (with the help of Jovoto.com and prize sponsor Ingersoll Rand, we hosted a global online contest to raise interest in design for the poor.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production. Second, firms should strengthen their government affairs teams to stay ahead of any regulatory changes.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. They don’t need to be part of every discussion, but CEOs do need to make pricing and new product development their priority. Innovation Marketing'

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. Executives develop breadth by broadening their exposure to the full organization and taking assignments across disciplines.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Marketing, sales teams and the DSD force itself operate with tremendous coordination to ensure that they are consistently aligned in their business objectives.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. Companies in the leading sectors make more extensive use of digital payments, digital marketing, and design-led product development.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In an interview he told us: “SASB has now issued standards for 45 industries in six sectors The specific issues we examine for human capital include labor relations; fair labor practices; employee health, safety and wellbeing; diversity and inclusion; compensation and benefits; and recruitment, development and retention.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. Developing employees Managing people Employee retention'

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8