Eric Jacobson

MARCH 23, 2023

During the past three years, leaders have been playing catchup on surprises like COVID, inflation, supply chain disruptions, armed conflict in the world, social issues, and the changing nature of work. Know which character strengths you want to project, or need to cultivate, in order to achieve your goals.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The basis of any successful manufacturing company is its supply chain’s effectiveness and the quality of the materials that it uses, and it is up to you as a manager to ensure that you can find and buy the right supplies for your business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Top executives, therefore, must develop new skills and competencies to advance sustainable development in their industries. Environmental disasters will continue to disrupt global supply chains, barring access to energy and food. What might a leader in sustainability look like in practice? What is Sustainable Leadership?

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

The always-on manger is the one who continually monitors performance and gives feedback and needs to keep an eye on every small development. They keep quality control over the materials supplied. The teacher manager is one who passes on the experience of his journey to the subordinates. Team Leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. Research & Develop.’ Disruptive changes are transforming entire sectors of the economy. Industries are being upended. So…think like William Gibson.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

They have built their own standard for supply chain right from procuring raw material to delivery of these meals in schools across. On further inquiry, we found that their kitchen was ISO 22000 (Food Safety) Certified. They collect some key metrics including cost per meal and constantly look for ways to optimize it. Truly remarkable!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with… Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps. Bechtel tapped to work with GE Hitachi on DOE’s Virtual Test Reactor Bechtel has been selected to work with GE Hitachi to develop the U.S. Meanwhile, PaR Systems.

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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. The final cost will depend on: The scope of the project. Read on to learn more. What Is SQF?

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. Our first hire in Ecuador was a great man named Fausto.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of.    Last night, I went to dinner with a good friend who helps head up executive development for the company. 

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. A roundtable conversation with our advisers. Is that a useful tool for other leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times.

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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. In all these cases, the teams work collaboratively rather than sequentially; they think together, rather than throwing projects “over the wall” to each other.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. On average, those projects generated enough financial savings to pay back the loan in just three years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Then came the cloud, which only heightened frustration with IT's lack of velocity in delivery, and managers flocked to outside vendors to automate various business processes, from customer relationship management to supply chain reporting to social media analytics. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

These include access to digital goods and services, being part of global supply chains, accelerating and partaking in the fruits of innovation, and helping citizens access information, entertainment, and connectivity on a worldwide basis. follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), developed through a rules-based approach.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There is the technology and there is business process development, both go hand-in-hand to form a complete marketplace ecosystem. Marketplace website builder: You can develop your marketplace platform from scratch by outsourcing your project or hiring in-house developers. Supply-chain and Demand.

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Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 122

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

LIFE focuses attention on the full life cycle of products, from supply chain to production excellence to designing longer-lasting and repairable products. Belvedere Vodka, a brand with sales in 120 countries, has pursued many large-scale projects to reduce its CO2 footprint. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

The partnership — later named the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium , or NDEMC — would revolutionize how America's manufacturing supply chain does business. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. In some industries, 3D printing is projected to reach the mainstream in three to ten years. Moving forward, consider the following questions for strategic development: Opportunity analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies? What can we do to independently monitor our supply chain? Our consumers? Business Model Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

So with a decade just ended, it is a good time to take stock of recent developments, and then look ahead to likely future management innovations. To gain perspective, it's often helpful to take a look back at the management processes developed in earlier eras. government, particularly in the defense sector.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

When they suggest initiatives, the projects only get a green light if they fit the formal organizational agenda. A manager at a wine company described how she successfully collaborated with stakeholders both within and outside her organization to roll out an environmental assurance program across the entire supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. When that partner abruptly left the firm, it quickly grew share of wallet of many existing clients in South America by offering a mash-up service — IT-enabled supply chain. Rehabilitate a misfit. Modify mindset.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 15, 2020

A new project between Healthcare analytics firm AdviseInc and Qlik has seen the development of a PPE tracking app to help healthcare organizations better manage their stocks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

When one of Apple's design teams was tasked with developing a DVD-burning software program for high-end Macs, developers spent weeks putting together a plan. Instead the firm develops process specialists — for graphic arts, supply chain, coding, retailing, and of course, industrial design.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2022

“The consortium had an open-innovation mindset that welcomed contributions from scores of partners; exaptation was much faster than mere adaptation in developing a new ventilator design; and there was a sound ecosystem strategy through leadership that welcomed knowledge sharing and coordination among partners rather than command and control.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Today, digitally recorded data describe nearly everything about our world, from highly tangible things like parts in the supply chain, inventory on the shelf, and seats on the plane to less tangible concepts like probabilities and sentiment. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. ” Develop corporate plasticity. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Unfortunately, the history of IT investments in most organizations is far from stellar: Research over the years suggests that the overall failure rate of IT projects is around 70%. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews).

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