HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

While gig workers offer employers greater workforce management flexibility, HR leaders will need to evaluate how performance management systems apply to these workers and determine whether they will be eligible for the same benefits as their full-time peers.”. The system did not respond well to the disruption in their workflow.

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2020

For instance, roughly half identified bankruptcies and industry consolidation as a likely consequence of the post-pandemic recession, with supply chain concerns a major cause of general pessimism surrounding the ability of companies to recover. ” A greener, fairer world.

Supply Chain 96

Supply Chain Crisis Globalization Report 96

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation.

CEO 81

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 81

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line.

Supply Chain 63

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 63

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. Communication and clarity are the currencies of effective leadership.

Leadership 70

Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) Catch up here. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. That compilation of tasks that go from time sheet to paycheck?

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. Fausto helped us grow from nothing into a team of 15 people and about 500 farmers, at which point Fausto’s leadership started to falter.

Talent Management 167

Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 70

Resources Industry System Strategy 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Marketing has entered its “uncanny valley” moment. Some marketing efforts give off the same vibe, like that creepy feeling when a casual online search leads to a glut of ads for the same pair of boots or getaway destination. Sales & Marketing. And that’s off-putting. It’s worth trying to get right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. Everyone talks about it, but our whole system is built on meritocracy. We soon figured out why. Most companies would have backed off from such an investment.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. The rapid increase in data about real-time conditions in supply chains will enable more agility. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

The earthquakes in Japan disrupted supply chains and challenged the just-in-time (JIT) management model that has gained popularity. A company stands a risk of losing market leadership and corporate reputation. Firms can model supply chain disruptions,but when Black Swans happen, the system usually breaks down.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Strategy Banking Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

While discussing a Harvard colleague's world-class work on how big data and analytics transform public sector effectiveness, I couldn't help but ask: How many public school systems had reached out to him for advice? Are analytics internally marketed and perceived as diagnostics for helping people and processes perform "better"?

Resistance 8

Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In a globalized economy, these challenges arise from pervasive, at times catastrophic, issues in international business: cronyism, antitrust, and labor issues, as well as trade, the environment, taxes, and supply chains.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. 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. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And the Bree Collaborative in Washington State demonstrates how this system approach to change can be scaled across a state. Engage health systems in change. The selection of what to work on and the accompanying measures must be market relevant, standardized, and measured rapidly. That’s good.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. Measuring Marketing Insights.

CRM 8

CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? Ecosystems like these are moving beyond linear supply chains to partner with providers of complementary products and services (or sometimes even competitors). Organizational leadership.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Increase market share?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. In sharp contrast to Nokia's approach, Apple offered developers a uniform development environment and a direct path to market. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market? Apple crafted a win-win-win.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

His record is one of a brilliant strategist who has the rare ability to manage creative talent on the one hand while maintaining a firm grip on business fundamentals such as brand synergies, distribution access, supply chains, and sourcing to maximize returns across the LVMH portfolio of brands. Any investor may walk in that door.

Ramaswamy 13

Ramaswamy Supply Chain Brand Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

A contract manufacturing company that builds products for IT equipment makers, for example, had a dedicated team of speculative market analysts whose active trend monitoring led to a 15 percent return on investment. You also need to push sales organizations to find overlooked pockets of growth in "tapped" markets.

CEO 15

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has not only seen its fortunes erode but its reputation for competitiveness, creativity and integrity collapse.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. They also ensure accountability is crystal clear to the organization.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The most recent National Business Ethics Survey indicates progress as leaders make concerted efforts to pay holistic attention to their organization’s systems. When all is said and done, we’ll likely learn that the choices of those employees resulted from deeply systemic issues. The head of Supply Chain was given a $3.5

Ethics 8

Ethics Compliance Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Involve your head of marketing and human resources early. ” Marvin Chow, VP of Global Marketing at Google, emphasizes how important it is to create a vision and then build and show momentum. Amy Friedlander-Hoffman, Head of Experiential Marketing at Uber, believes it is essential to keep “coming back to the core.”

Crisis 9

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every business day, companies cede hard evidence to the political agendas of a willful manager or department, and these companies span geographies, industries, revenues, and market segments. But Dan, every supply chain model we've run shows that the quantities are way too large. We can cover it.". And the pricing models.". "Oh,

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

This is somewhat surprising, given that his management system is very different from those of other publicly traded companies. It has no central marketing, procurement, sales, HR, IT, or legal department. Would such a system work in more corporations? Berkshire Hathaway is known for its extreme decentralization.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8