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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

Increased sales can be directly attributed to how successfully a business collaborates with the entire supply chain. Supply chain management has immense potential to enhance business operations, improve productivity, and increase a business’s agility to changing market trends and customer demand.

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8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

Interconnectedness comes with a great many benefits – quickly penetrating new markets and growing customer base, being just a few of them. Meanwhile, supply chains have become more complex. All of this, at the same time, creates a network of risks. Market risk analysis slowly shifts toward a joint effort.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

If so, we should use a set of processes when designing and launching businesses that are geared for prediction — ask the right questions, perform the right analyses, plan production and supply chain for predictable variations on projected sales. respectively, suggesting that market risk is the major driver of our inability to predict.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.