Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

They had to deal with cancelled orders and supply chain disruptions, as well as employees needing more flexible schedules or being unable to work remotely due to inadequate home office setups. Apparently, operations managers were suddenly being pressured by accounting heads to justify the ROI for purchases. . Operations Day.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations.

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Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 65

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Their astute observations on the dynamics between employers and employees, influenced by demographic shifts and economic fluctuations, resonate in the turbulent aftermath of the COVID-19 era. (L-R): Imagine practicing complex procedures in a simulated operating room or mastering new sales techniques in a virtual customer interaction.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

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. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Manufacturers of heavy products such as appliances or cars that are heavily influenced by shipment costs may find it pays to move production closer to market demand.

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Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness. Platforms, not processes, make innovations faster and easier to implement.

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Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The most frequently cited motivation was the mitigation of business risk from potential disruption of operations, supplies, or reputational damage, cited 38% of the time, followed by the motivation to adhere to industry norms of transparency, traceability, environmental responsibility, and other accepted standards, cited 27.6%

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. They are not senior enough to have the necessary influence. Process owners misunderstand their role. Also, process owners control IT budgets.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Today, digitally recorded data describe nearly everything about our world, from highly tangible things like parts in the supply chain, inventory on the shelf, and seats on the plane to less tangible concepts like probabilities and sentiment. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Small and medium-sized enterprises — SMEs — have long been recognized for their vital role in creating jobs and supporting supply chains in national economies. There is growing evidence of global SMEs that do more than supply inputs for the global supply chain. Of these 90% employ less than 10 people.

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Supply Chain Globalization Technology Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? For example, developing our PlantBottle innovation — a fully recyclable packaging made of up to 30% renewable plant material — took significant upfront investment but we felt it made good sense, especially with oil prices fluctuating.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

While Big Food companies such as General Mills or Unilever have tremendous global influence on what people eat, trading companies have a much greater impact on food security, because they source and distribute our staple foods and the ingredients used by Big Food, from rice, wheat, corn, and sugar to soybean and oil palm.

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Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

ineffective innovation strategies. failure to fully embed operations in China. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing. Specific factors identified included: failure to cope with a very large number of local competitors. “It’s death by a thousand cuts!”

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. By expanding her influence outside the organization, she gained credibility within.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. One can easily imagine Amazon and other like-minded companies building out more and more tech-enabled strategic and operating capability—linking the pieces.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But the potential impact and influence of network effects goes far beyond unique selling propositions and user experience. Comparable challenges exist for supply chain management and external partnerships: their collective intelligence may be ripe for algorithmic harvesting, but how well will it link to the rest of the enterprise?

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

On the other hand, most businesses are operating with traditional models of salesperson recruitment and training. Cognitive skills and capabilities include innovative problem solving; the ability to identify opportunities; the ability to work under pressure; and mental toughness and resilience.

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Skills Supply Chain CRM Training 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. Hence the opportunity for third-party service providers.

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Short-term Energy Long-term System 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. One can easily imagine Amazon and other like-minded companies building out more and more tech-enabled strategic and operating capability—linking the pieces.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Conversations, not chains. They get it. They live it. And to them, it's ridiculously obvious.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

A few ways we do this at Intel is through: RISE: In May 2020, we outlined our 2030 RISE strategy and corporate responsibility goals for the next decade to accelerate the integration of responsible, inclusive, and sustainable practices and innovative approaches in our operations and supply chain, across the technology industry, and beyond.

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Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models. For-benefits serve as force multipliers for the work nonprofits are already doing, by bringing new financial resources, new talent, and innovative solutions to those efforts.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

I realized that my entire life I was being led by the power they instilled in me and was using it to make my way in the world, and be a positive influence. I assume that the vast majority of today CEOs didn’t realize the extent to which they would have to guide their company’s operations so as to publicly reflect their values.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies.

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Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

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Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

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Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 13