Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

We know that we are somehow complicit in the moral chain that links our cheap clothes with collapsing factories, but we feel powerless to respond. So here are three radical suggestions for transforming the field of supply chain ethics. The truth is that the world is complicated, and supply chains are tangled and dynamic.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Ethics Telecommunications Politics 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency. If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Companies like Google are heightening expectations around data-driven personalization.

Trends 50

Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

With the size and complexity of supply chains soaring, a daunting challenge is confronting companies: identifying the critical nodes hidden within the vast expanse of their supply networks. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Currently, generating a map of supply networks is a daunting task.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. Investing in the supply chain. Supply chains are undergoing a transformation in almost every industry we study. Growth-oriented investments aren’t hard to recognize.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

As organizations gain increasing insight into their own operating models and supply chains they are coming to appreciate the true cost of supposedly “low-value” suppliers. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue. The longer the time horizon, the more appealing many aspects of ESG, as mentioned above.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The heads of the arrows between the network elements signify the direction of relationships.

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Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. Consider how global value chains are evolving.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Having founded a data management company and worked with hundreds of organizations over the past 20 years to execute their information management and analytics initiatives, I’ve found the groups that are able to successfully utilize their company’s analytics technologies often take the following approaches: Build a team.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has only a handful of brick-and-mortar stores, Uber doesn’t manage a fleet of cars, and Ebay doesn’t manage a supply chain. And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR). For example, Health Technology had an average multiple of 5.1,

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Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. Frito-Lay’s direct-to-store delivery capability, Inditex’s fast-fashion supply chain, and Toyota’s production system took years to hone into true sources of enterprise differentiation. Smartphones destroyed Nokia’s cell phone business.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy 10

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

While it’s easy to think that vast technology-enabled networks aren’t as real or valuable as the old-fashioned, face-to-face variety, research doesn’t support that view. Do you need some examples of where a new technology is being used to bolster your business case? No problem — your network can help.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Mentor Stress Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location. As a broader observation of this point, consider Rocket Internet.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Great service sits at the intersection of sales, customer service, and supply chain. Repeatable core processes, technology and information sharing platforms, and cross-functional teams are all design options that help create seamless linkages.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But today, both macroeconomic forces, and technological advances mean that customized products aren't just for the one percent. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold. By using the rules of the social era. Social Becomes Central to What We Build.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company? Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. 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. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

There’s also the possibility of travel bans on executives (including on those under unresolved court proceedings), and good, old-fashioned intimidation. technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. This year, Walmart finally added a key element to its impressive green supply chain efforts. Later in the year, tragedy struck Dhaka, Bangladesh when a fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory killed or injured hundreds of people.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9