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Consumers In Two Minds About Automated Deliveries

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers identified a “complex and multifaceted” relationship between behavior and the acceptance of imminent technologies for automated parcel delivery.

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

Strategy Driven

The fulfillment process is well-trodden territory for brick-and-mortar retailers: packages come directly to the stores at predictable intervals. However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. Transportation Needs Are More Complex.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. Similarly, the logistics department is responsible for getting raw materials to factories and delivering finished goods to public warehouses and onto retail outlets.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

The innovation portfolio. The innovation portfolio also contained a new business unit called MedStar Ambulatory Services, a network of small, storefront clinics, diagnostic labs, and primary care offices located in dozens of neighborhoods. and Maryland to launch a more general health insurance plan. The investment portfolio.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). Investing in innovation capacity.

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