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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced. In fact, according to a McKinsey report , algorithmic route optimization results in an almost 16% increase in a company’s profit, without compromising on quality. With customers expecting free shipping and membership schemes that guarantee same day delivery, transportation costs have increased.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

This isn't a new challenge, but it's more urgent than ever, not just as an effort to escape reform and regulation from the outside, but to restore the public trust, to repair the moral fabric of the system, and to unleash the innovation required to tackle the world's most pressing and important challenges.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. Based on similar numbers, both McKinsey and PwC UK calculated how fast we must reduce the carbon intensity of the global economy ( PwC's number is 5% per year until 2050 ). Macro Trends.