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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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This is What Keeps Most CEO’s Up at Night

Lead from Within

The opportunity to lead people from the top, develop strategies, and make an impact in the world is an exciting prospect for many people. Here is a little insight into the things that trouble CEOs: The human reality of leadership. Creating new business models in light of disruptive technologies. Talent management.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

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Thinking Through How Automation Will Affect Your Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. Start with the work, not the “job” or the technology. Today’s supply chains track the components of products at both an atomized and aggregate level.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

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. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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