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. While I agree, I nonetheless believe that the slowdown is due, in part, to an acceleration of “near-shoring,” the practice of producing closer to the customer.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness.

Process 12

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A final adaptation should be done through technological innovation, which is how Big Food really got its start. One promising innovation is MATS technology, or microwave assisted thermal sterilization, created at Washington State University. Frozen food and canning were gigantic industry breakthroughs.)

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Marketplace website builder: You can develop your marketplace platform from scratch by outsourcing your project or hiring in-house developers. Supply-chain and Demand.

Retail 121

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 121

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks. Measuring brand exposure.

Process 11

Process Company Supply Chain Software 11

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.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Marketplace website builder: You can develop your marketplace platform from scratch by outsourcing your project or hiring in-house developers. Supply-chain and Demand.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

In this era of complex supply chains and the hiring of expert sub-contractors, taking such responsibility is crucial for preventing events with the potential to adversely affect the corporation and its reputation.

CEO 8

CEO Outsourcing Supply Chain Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

To succeed in the collaborative economy, companies will need to integrate crowd-produced goods into their supply chain, as West Elm has done with Etsy. Innovation Internet Strategy'

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Transportation Brand 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Turn to manufacturing and note that supply chains first shifted from vertical to horizontal, in-house to global. Then they moved from chains of contracted suppliers to networks of peer producers. Publishers are not producers of one finished stream of information but aggregators of many, from raw to polished.

Storytelling 15

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. Multinationals' shares of employment, capital investment, and output in the U.S. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Innovating for Value in Health Care. They are taking control of their health care supply chains.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Almost anything can be outsourced to specialists and reconnected. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Through its outsourcing agreements, Airtel had shrunk to its core. An HBR Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 4, 2021

Local SEO has become the highest priority of all, as supply chains and logistics have been massively disrupted and in some cases, halted altogether. Writing engaging content doesn’t come naturally to some, and thus business leaders should seriously consider outsourcing in this regard.

Marketing 123

Marketing Positioning How To Supply Chain 123

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. If you're outsourcing Web 2.0

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8