Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Look below the surface, and the scale of this achievement so far becomes clearer — not only because of the world-class execution of this $15 billion project, but also the context in which it is being delivered. The unscheduled project was pulled together in months. Even the notoriously cynical British media remain supportive.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Second, young businesses tend to grow faster than older ones, but also fail at greater rates. Make public policy proactive, not reactive. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 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. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

By 2015, according to my own firm''s projections , not only will 75 percent of the world''s population have access to the internet. Given the reality of limited resources, this lands many traditional product companies at a crossroads. So will some six billion devices.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When contaminated meat or vegetables are recalled, consumer advocates demand more transparency from food supply chains. One executive I talked to complained to me about how much data their human resources department collected each year, but every year he felt that none of the data was used to improve working conditions.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Team the project. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Human resources development.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.”

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

This person, let's call him Bill, had been with the company for many years, understood the engineering and supply chain issues, and was well respected by everyone. The head of Human Resources even asked the CEO whether Bill's job-grade and performance bonus should be reduced. Not one person congratulated him.

Career 17

Career P&L Supply Chain CEO 17