HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Stephanie Neal’s research underscores the importance of aligning organizational values with leadership actions.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

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

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.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 53

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

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 298

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 strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2018

You can improve your skills by enrolling for short courses on the basics of data analysis, financial operations, and business analysis. How is the supply chain related to sales? You can improve your skills by enrolling for short courses on the basics of data analysis, financial operations, and business analysis.

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How To Supply Chain Analysis Human Resources 45

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What we can see now is that what began as an emergency response has led to a more profound change in operating models, with remote working and flexible structures becoming more finessed. The chief guest for the evening was Ann Francke OBE, the Chief Executive Officer of CMI UK. COVID-19 has changed this perspective completely.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

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. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

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.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Whether presiding over the entire company, a function, region, or business unit, the team at the top of an organization has disproportionate levels of influence over those it leads. The consequences can be farther reaching than most leadership teams realize. It’s astounding how badly most leadership teams use their time together.

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Supply Chain Team Influence Comparison 14

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

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.,

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

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Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

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

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

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

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 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. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. 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

Women on Business

JANUARY 31, 2013

But sponsors have significant influence inside an organization and advocate on your behalf, especially when high profile assignments are being discussed and names considered. ” Grace Lieblein, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, General Motors. ” Ilene H. “So why the lack of progress?

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P&L Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Mentor 256

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2022

What can we learn about how leaders and their teams communicate under pressure from the sinking of a container ship?

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Management Team Supply Chain Leadership Styles 19

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

In recent years, Jones has raised the bar for DE&I leadership across the globe for a number of talent initiatives for groups that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Intel continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I).

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Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

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. It goes back to my role in establishing the firm’s Responsible Business Leadership function as well as the PwC Charitable Foundation. My purpose is to honor their legacy.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It hurried along the formation of global supply chains with ever greater efficiency and economies of scale. As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Shredded vertical supply chains.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While there is no guidebook of straightforward answers to your new challenges , having a clear philosophy can provide a firm foundation from which to operate. The idea of “servant leadership” is a great place for new managers to start. Servant leadership is most powerful when applied to managing employees.

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Management Supply Chain Greenleaf Influence 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest. Embedding these transformative technologies into operations will be easier than ever. And the good news?

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Supply Chain Loyalty Content Efficiency 109

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Companies far outside the tech world are using these intense brainstorming and development sessions to stir up new ideas on everything from culture change to supply chain management. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes. Hackathons are no longer just for coders.

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Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Never before has leadership been so critical, and never before has it seemed in such short supply. It takes extraordinary leadership to keep an organization relevant in a world of relentless change. So what does it take to dramatically enlarge the leadership capacity of an organization?

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

On human rights issues, companies have lobbied the UK government for stronger regulation tackling Modern Slavery in corporate supply chains, and the Cambodian government for stronger protection for worker’s rights. Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake. What’s going on?

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Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Communications.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57