The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We have seen huge fiscal packages introduced by governments in response to rising energy prices coupled with rising interest rates to tackle rapidly rising inflation. The inflation in most developed countries has been driven by energy and other commodities, with supply chain difficulties also adding to the situation.

Crisis 72

Crisis Report Price Policies 72

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2020

For instance, roughly half identified bankruptcies and industry consolidation as a likely consequence of the post-pandemic recession, with supply chain concerns a major cause of general pessimism surrounding the ability of companies to recover. What began as a health crisis quickly became an economic, and then an energy crisis.

Supply Chain 95

Supply Chain Crisis Globalization Report 95

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S. to achieve its climate change goals.

Payback Period 50

Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2020

You will need to dedicate a significant amount of time and energy into building and maintaining a successful enterprise, so it’s critical to love what you do. You’ll need a solid understanding of the level of hard work, passion and commitment required to run a restaurant, as there is more to it than hiring a chef and marketing your venture.

Supply Chain 65

Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 65

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.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

You will need to dedicate a significant amount of time and energy into building and maintaining a successful enterprise, so it’s critical to love what you do. You’ll need a solid understanding of the level of hard work, passion and commitment required to run a restaurant, as there is more to it than hiring a chef and marketing your venture.

Supply Chain 68

Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 68

Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2016

The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting. You must understand, for example, what level of authority purchasing or supply chain has and how actively involved in the decision the actual business users of the product or service will be.

Due Diligence 50

Due Diligence Team Supply Chain Finance 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Partner with farmers in the supply chain. billion to 9.8 In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. This kind of law clearly drives much more transparency and tracking up the supply chain. A combination of high quality, glamour, celebrity, and attitude.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable. Sokopepe uses SMS and web tools to offer market information and farm record management services to farmers. This helps to adjust irrigation and determine the needs of individual plants.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But a high-performing organization should do much more than that: Supply chain and operational execs should be ready to shift production and logistics very quickly from one region to another. Facebook employs a Green Energy Czar, so I can easily imagine a Zero Carbon leader or Extreme Weather VP.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. For example, if you’re a brand marketer, you might give yourself an “A” in advertising development, a “B+” in pricing analysis, “C” in trade marketing, etc. Liane Davey.

Career 15

Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. dollar, rising fuel costs and the risks inherent in longer supply chains have many companies rethinking their sourcing strategies. Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up. For now, Tesla has none of these.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. When addressing the company's aspirational goal of using 100% renewable energy, Bedore said two noteworthy things. EPA's latest list of the top 50 renewable energy buyers.

ROI 14

ROI IRR Power Payback Period 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. One of my fellow speakers, Reinhard Otten from Audi, introduced a new initiative where Audi will become a trampoline for the whole renewable energy movement in Germany. If you're a car company like Audi, you are worried about access to renewable energy.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The group identifies the “hot spots” in the value chain that create the most risk and footprint. So for example, in the case of computers, key issues might be how much energy it consumes during use, or the inclusion of metals in the design that come from controversial “conflict minerals” in the supply chain.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2020

Experts predict that the global market for small, mobile offices will reach $49.7 The same logic extends to every part of your operations and supply chain. Once you have figured out how to find a co packer , you might want to bring your operations closer to them, to shorten the supply chain, and save money.

Supply Chain 67

Supply Chain Operations Cost Travel 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For every “shared value” example of an energy-saving initiative that reduces operational costs, or of a social investment that enhances customer loyalty, one can find a less comfortable result. It can cost more to ensure better labor standards in a supply chain, or to meet environmental standards.

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It isn’t just about limiting downside risk; the company can also create profitable new products and services to address the urgent global needs such as those associated with scarce water supplies, hunger, and greenhouse gas emissions. It was an ambitious but concrete plan. It’s not for every company.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, it was assumed that conventional oil reserves would be developed by national oil companies and major oil and gas companies to supply virtually all of the world’s oil demand. lifted the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil, and the maiden shipments are finding their way to global markets allowing U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 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 18, 2011

With agriculture making up 9 percent of the state's economy, and water shortages already threatening growth in the state's energy industry , it's not a reach to suggest that the future of the Texas economy will be tied closely to water availability. The value is exempt from the ebb and flow of the market.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). market on China. market on China. Related Video.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9