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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. The fulfillment process is well-trodden territory for brick-and-mortar retailers: packages come directly to the stores at predictable intervals. Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How Technology Is Transforming Retail - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Ocado

Harvard Business Review

Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. This is having a knock-on effect on traditional retail brands that are struggling to compete in the new world order. By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado.

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