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How To Offset Cost Increases Without Driving Customers Away

Strategy Driven

It’s mainly due to the pandemic , stretching supply chains and bringing manufacturing and sourcing closer to home. The green agenda that governments are touting is going to impact the cost of making products and that in turn will affect your price. Productivity gains. All the while employees are working from home.

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The Future Is Where Brands Must Focus

Great Leadership By Dan

And the actions that these brands take to demonstrate their credibility must clearly illustrate a blend of corporate ethics and brand authenticity. Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’.

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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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The Trust Issue

Strategy Driven

Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

In the lean-manufacturing context, in contrast, assembly line workers learn to execute a variety of production tasks, take responsibility for product quality, and are encouraged to find ways to improve the production process. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs. Locke of Brown University.