Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. Indeed, corporations like Kraft, consider role rotation standard for building well-rounded leaders , and actively invite promising line managers to take on staff jobs and the reverse.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Coca-Cola sees five thousand women entrepreneurs as part of its global supply chain by 2020.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Deconstructing the “job” reveals that the human still plays an important role. While the human “co-pilot” no longer does the work of routine navigation and piloting, they still do things like observing the driverless operation, and stepping in to assist with unusual or dangerous situations.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Outsourcing Call Center Organization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. Then our head of supply chain would do the same. When was the last time you overrode your human-resources systems to reward them? Do you have a way of regularly identifying and celebrating them?

Company 10

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. For example, consider Minneapolis-based medical device company, Medtronic , which develops diagnostic and intervention devices for cardiac and vascular diseases, diabetes, and neurological and musculoskeletal conditions.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

To achieve better care, employers need to work with providers to determine the conditions that are generating the greatest direct and indirect costs and to develop measurable quality goals. And while employers operate across state lines, very few providers do. But what about the other 316 million people in the United States?

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. This is a trap many companies fall into.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. by Hank Moore.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. They are taking control of their health care supply chains. It is a costly mistake. physical therapy.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. The result was that their ideas were not developed. The good news is that you can change that.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. Human resources Leadership Talent management' Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. Management should then quantify and budget the expected return on the practice’s operational loss. Strengthen operations.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8