The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

A remedy for this, you might imagine, is for medics to graduate into managerial roles, and therefore bring their clinical expertise to the management teams. Research from Harvard Business School reminds us, however, that precious few doctors receive any kind of leadership or management training, so may be unsuited to the task.

Skills 64

Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 64

Skip Prichard

APRIL 27, 2020

And then keep adapting as we learned more about how to deal with health issues, work-from-home issues, finances, family, school and technology. Well, for leaders like myself and my panelists, that was compounded by trying to help guide our teams and departments through hazards and processes we’ve never had to deal with before.

Supply Chain 110

Supply Chain Crisis Learning-by-Doing Finance 110

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Price 371

Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan. consultants, etc.),

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

Zero Based Budgeting 8

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. So if you want to step up to more effective leadership, you may need to conquer your fears and give convening a try.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Power Engineering Group Facilitation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But when we carry this mindset into our first leadership roles, we confuse doing with leading. We believe that by working longer, harder, and smarter than our team, we’ll inspire by example. Suddenly we need to expand our behavioral repertoire to incorporate new leadership styles as a means of influencing others effectively.

Goleman 11

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

And he or she must play demonstrably well with others on the team. Finding people with the right combination of competence, character and team skills isn't easy, of course, even if you conduct a long, carefully-orchestrated search. Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T.,

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In the process she developed managerial muscle in finance, human resources, governance, and IT, and, as a bonus, Bronwyn gained more flexibility in her schedule since she didn’t have external client demands driving her day-to-day work. Reshaping your current role is another way to grow on the plateau.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

His record is one of a brilliant strategist who has the rare ability to manage creative talent on the one hand while maintaining a firm grip on business fundamentals such as brand synergies, distribution access, supply chains, and sourcing to maximize returns across the LVMH portfolio of brands. Any investor may walk in that door.

Ramaswamy 14

Ramaswamy Supply Chain Brand Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk.

Globalization 11

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. Further Reading. Marc Effron.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If Companies playing development to win have CEOs traveling to the region 2-3 times per year, supported by engagement of the full management team. GE did more than take advantage of growth as it came. It also demands senior management and board involvement.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. Inevitably, teams fail to link the structure (i.e., A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). So, what makes the difference between success and failure?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. In comparative rankings they were generally at or near the bottom of the list.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. The list goes on and on.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. . “Does this mean that all our procurement bids will be determined by machine?”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. With our cotton farmers in Xinjiang, we changed many of the unfair trade practices and now aim for more than just fair trade by promoting higher cotton yields and quality through assistance in cotton research, farming techniques, and access to micro-finance.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

MNCs then had to do two, three, or even four rounds of price hikes over the next 12 months to recoup their losses, while local teams were trying to guess currency movements, which is neither a good use of time, nor something they specialize in. Country and regional leadership teams should ask: 1) What is our broad objective in this market?

Price 8

Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Gain senior leadership support.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. As CEO, you can fight back by sponsoring micro battles — discrete, narrowly defined, customer-focused initiatives pursued by small cross-functional teams. Too often, senior executive teams favor horizontal, internally focused actions like “building a world-class finance function.”

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. If these events occur, they would severely disrupt multinationals’ market strategies, supply chains, and exchange-rate assumptions. Asia-Pacific: China Sea Flashpoints Could Obstruct the Global Supply Chain.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8