HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Companies have begun to take more proactive leadership roles in advancing equity within their organizations and in society more broadly. Additionally, as businesses work to recover, the labor market is extremely competitive. Build a diverse supply chain. . Offer voluntary DEI training for all.

Diversity 122

Diversity Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Report 122

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Performance evaluation and work goals also need to be recalibrated to suit the new work norms. A streamlining of roles with a smooth supply chain and workflow created cost efficiencies, but the pandemic showed up the model’s fragility. Another major difference in outlook is the government’s role in market forces.

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. They keep quality control over the materials supplied.

Management 87

Management Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 87

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Good marketers, and particularly researchers, tackle business problems by directly challenging the core beliefs around the ‘consumer reality’ of a brand—which are very often based on either outmoded, unrealistic or simply wishful thinking. How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact innovation and leadership in organizations around the world?

Innovation 107

Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 107

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2020

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. You could also study health management, operations management, global leadership, or supply chain & enterprise resource planning.

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

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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. You could also study health management, operations management, global leadership, or supply chain & enterprise resource planning.

Supply Chain 67

Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 67

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.) Catch up 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

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team. This leadership should be committed to the organization’s vision, mission, and core values. Essentially, they serve as the guiding light, steering the organization toward its goals and objectives.

Compliance 239

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 239

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. And what are your strategic goals? We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan.

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. Whenever possible, they even work to generate mini-founder opportunities within their companies, to foster responsibility and leadership experiences for their most talented people.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. It’s time for that to change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Marketing has entered its “uncanny valley” moment. Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination. Sales & Marketing. And that’s off-putting. It’s worth trying to get right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Coca-Cola, in an impressive display of leadership on water issues, recently announced it would meet its aggressive water targets five years early. And so it set goals accordingly. This goal, and its achievement, arguably makes Coca-Cola “water neutral.” Does meeting a goal 5 years early mean it was too easy ?

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Operations Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But those that do account for half of the net value created in the global stock market in a given year.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It can cost more to ensure better labor standards in a supply chain, or to meet environmental standards. How do you demonstrate that a company’s best-in-class compliance program — not a tightened labor market — enhanced employee engagement? Moreover, the business benefits of integrity have many variables.

Ethics 14

Ethics Short-term Long-term Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The HTA’s self-described goal is “to improve the way corporations provide health care benefits in an effort to create better health care outcomes for their employees” by aggregating its members’ purchasing power and using it to gain additional leverage with care providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Increase market share?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating. Despite saying things like, “I have an open door policy,” some leadership actions may inhibit the courage needed to raise ethical concerns. They will cut corners on the way they reach a goal, or they will lie when reporting how much of the goal they actually achieved.

Ethics 8

Ethics Compliance Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Rather than aiming at all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , for example, companies will likely tailor their sustainability efforts to their commercial priorities. Coca-Cola devotes many resources to creating cleaner water supplies in developing countries. It’s not for every company.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. We often think we’re starting far ahead of where we objectively are and that we’ve arrived when we’re still hundreds of miles from our goal. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. Further Reading.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

It's not enough to set budgets and set goals. A contract manufacturing company that builds products for IT equipment makers, for example, had a dedicated team of speculative market analysts whose active trend monitoring led to a 15 percent return on investment. That's a big mistake. Make sales a team sport.

CEO 15

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every business day, companies cede hard evidence to the political agendas of a willful manager or department, and these companies span geographies, industries, revenues, and market segments. As people from different departments with different ideas and goals work together, philosophical differences are almost guaranteed.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

The problem is that CRM’s purported goals are vastly different from the way it usually functions in real life. ” This approach might make sense when bringing in accounting or supply chain management software, where the greatest gains come from bringing order and clarity to an existing system. Insight Center.

CRM 8

CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

What if you’re just trying to change the way your people handle loans, manage a supply chain, or interact with customers? ” Decision C: “I chose to market the company as the leader of good health not just for the current member, but for everyone.” There is a simpler way to inspire change.

Charisma 8

Charisma Supply Chain Creativity Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Every leader wants to avoid major strategic mistakes, but, in a complex world, it’s hard to anticipate all the forces that might impact your goal. For example, what if a new competitor enters the market earlier than expected? cnsphotography/Getty Images. military has practiced and refined over centuries.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Strategy 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

What are our markets? Great service sits at the intersection of sales, customer service, and supply chain. Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Fail to reform this, and your organization may simply retrench to silos and border wars, and fail to achieve common goals.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

in emerging markets, and just 5.6% ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. Women also need to network more effectively and aggressively, while standing up for their goals and ideas.” in Latin America. And sponsorship is critical to opening doors to these jobs.”

P&L 256

P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256