Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The disruptions to everything from gasoline supplies to the deliveries of merchandise for the holiday shopping season caused by Hurricane Sandy have demonstrated that our ability to forecast weather events has outpaced our ability to forecast supply-chain disasters. The governments of other countries should do the same.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Transportation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? I described in an earlier post how Tesco worked for years to improve its supply chain capabilities, then leveraged this value by using deeper customer knowledge to enrich customer experiences.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Operations Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

In advanced manufacturing, by contrast, operations often drive the most value. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. 2 trillion in supply chain management and manufacturing (some of the value accrues to companies while some is captured by customers). Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Retail Technology Learning-by-Doing 10

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. For example, Air Products set up process owners for each of the major steps in its supply chain, including plan, source, make, build, and fulfill.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Almost one third of the firms negatively affected by the storm had no insurance of any Consistent with our predictions, young firms and small businesses insured at much lower rates. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

This turmoil led to huge operational shifts in the financial services sector, where there’s more focus than ever on consumer education, industry information sharing, and stronger forms of authentication, among other things. Purchase insurance. Protect supply chains. access to patient records).

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Frito-Lay’s direct-to-store delivery capability, Inditex’s fast-fashion supply chain, and Toyota’s production system took years to hone into true sources of enterprise differentiation. But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 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.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Clorox deploys cross-functional teams to continually prune its product portfolio, insuring that remaining products meet their volume targets. And Dell strictly limits the number of components in its computers as a way of controlling its customized assembly operations.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Supply Chain Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a weekday and Jeff, the director of technology at Economical Insurance, kisses his daughter and waves goodbye as she enters the doors of her public school. ” As more workers work flexibly or remotely, companies will need to change the way they operate. Kolbz/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Policies Insurance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. As corporations rethink their global supply chains and business models, creating ecosystems of suppliers and aspiring entrepreneurs could be part of the solution.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Masses of social, weather, and government data are being leveraged to predict supply chain outages. But when it comes to making simple, repetitive, operational decisions (like where to send a cab, how to price a product, or how many flowers to order to a floral shop), machines tend to be much better than people.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Price Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations. Analytics are growing in every business function and industry.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?). traffic deaths.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

As a product designer, I cut my teeth on enterprise software at Trilogy in Austin; we developed configuration tools for Ford and Nissan, pricing solutions for the insurance vertical, and supply-chain and selling management software for a host of different companies. Describe an incremental path towards success.

Software 8

Software Supply Chain B2C Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. Medtronic is using big data and advanced analytics to drive their approach to patient and physician support and manage supply chains. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. But this shift shouldn’t just be about capabilities.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

What’s our role in the value chain: facilitator, fleet operator, driverless “driver” supplier (versus vehicle manufacturer)? How can we remain relevant in this future? Automotive OEMs. How do we reposition ourselves to sell not just vehicles, but mobility? What should we buy or partner with instead of building?

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

We plan production runs based on demand signals and feed these into our enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which, if we are lucky, will tie to our manufacturing execution system (MES), which drives the factory to pull on the supply chain and produce finished product for delivery to customers through our distribution channels.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

A 1% transaction fee may not seem like much, but down a 15-step supply chain, it adds up. Right now, this is not a very common practice (particularly for short stays) because of the overhead involved — insurance of each rented item, dozens of vendors, coordination costs getting everything in and out and so on.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The insurance giant Munich Re recently released a new report on the rapid increase in weather-related losses. After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. And from a business (or any) perspective, does it matter whether this megastorm was caused by climate change?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Nearly everyone at our meeting felt that repeatable models were directly relevant to Africa — to local companies operating wholly within the continent, to businesses that started in Africa and have become global leaders, and to multinational companies (MNCs) entering or expanding in Africa. Infrastructure challenges.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain How To Insurance Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations. With automated pricing engines, insurers and banks can roll out new offers as fast as online competitors. Automating basic processes.

Company 11

Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. A third apparent motivation was to corner the local physician market in order to obtain more favorable rates from health insurers.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. More companies are concerned that their current supply chain would be more vulnerable to unilateral protectionist measures, such as lower standards for import safeguards. Renegotiating NAFTA. Navigating the Next Two Years in Mexico.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. Doubling up value chains, including alternatives outside China, would mitigate the risk of political and regulatory disruption. (It

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. can benefit consumers and the economy with lower cost (although foreign operations often sell in foreign markets). .; A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. Use of Revenues and Margins.

Offshoring 13

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It includes full-fledged exits by corporations like Clorox , one of the first corporations to cease its operations in the market in 2014 (to later be seized by the Venezuelan government), and companies like Bridgestone and General Mills , which sold their Venezuela businesses to local industrial groups and private investors, respectively, in 2016.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8