Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks.

Process 12

Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

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. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the Retail 4.0 Marketplace website builder: You can develop your marketplace platform from scratch by outsourcing your project or hiring in-house developers.

Retail 119

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 119

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 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. Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020. trillion in 2014 alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Companies would certainly include a lighting retrofit at a warehouse in their list of sustainability or eco-efficiency projects. But inventory is not a minor issue.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. To my mind, the biggest risk with the project is if companies find it too lofty and too much of a “UN initiative” – and decide not try at all.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options.

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

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?”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

If so, we should use a set of processes when designing and launching businesses that are geared for prediction — ask the right questions, perform the right analyses, plan production and supply chain for predictable variations on projected sales.

Black-Scholes 8

Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

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. Deepening your skills is another way to build credibility and opportunity on the plateau.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

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 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the marketplace model today. Marketplace website builder: You can develop your marketplace platform from scratch by outsourcing your project or hiring in-house developers.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production. We also hear from clients that more government projects are being eliminated, reducing opportunities for companies hoping to sell to the government.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. That leads to higher costs, which then affects the price, which then affects the volume projections. Why does pricing feel so out of executives’ hands?

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". Think Global: This isn't just an India project. Use green and renewable materials where possible, and think of long term project sustainability. Embrace both meanings of the word.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

revising projections for the coming month) need to happen frequently. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly. After the roundtable, review ongoing projects, stopping only on issues where the team needs to weigh in.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 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. Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. ” asked one incredulous CEO of a multibillion euro business unit.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold. Many of you already know of Kickstarter as the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

The energy content of municipal sewage can be two to four times greater than the energy required to treat it, and GE demonstration projects with Chicago and other cities are turning that waste into electricity — enough to power entire treatment plants.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. select a project team with the right skill sets. Gain senior leadership support.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. One recent project involved building a tablet-based system for carrying out complex calculations in real time. Michael Francis, who led the project, noted how Kubernetes encouraged collaboration.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

This public-private collaboration includes the International Finance Corporation and food and beverage giants such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, and SABMiller. Companies will need to measure and prepare for potential resource shortages and price increases, which will deeply affect their business operations, supply chains, and customers.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Digital coupons aren't just "smart," they can be "brilliant" — linked to recommendation engines, GPS, supply chains, etc. Europe faces comparable challenges as the EU as a monetary union confronts the limitations of the EU as a political project. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Many of these teams will dissolve once the project is over, and their members may not work together again. When the team members first come together, they tend to misunderstand one another. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Stakeholders ranging from your supply chains to customers that walk into retail storefronts increasingly prefer to do business with companies that pursue cost-effective sustainability. Energy costs today make up an estimated 20% of the average office building’s costs. Why not agree to buy electricity from them?

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

We think a good start is to assess investors’ preferences across five catagories: Place : Investments in companies or projects that are located in a particular place (or benefit a particular group of people). There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Ethics Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8