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

Strategy Driven

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning.

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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. The respective systems measured market share at different places in the overall supply chain — marketing at the retail outlet and logistics at the public warehouse.

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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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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

Then ask the student to “compare and contrast” the vacuum salesman’s approach with a peace negotiator’s tactic of asking for a small and relatively unimportant parcel of land before requesting a large payment of reparations. This is a subtle, but important nuance.