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

Strategy Driven

However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. The latest trend in last mile delivery management focuses on the localization of distribution, where the goal is to leverage the existing infrastructure and optimize it through technology.

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The Importance of Risk Assessment in Business

Strategy Driven

Risks are part and parcel of everyday life. Externally, there are political issues, interest and exchange rates, new market competitors, and financial risks such as investments. It requires the establishment of policies and procedures with resources and tools made available for the plan. Risk Assessment Tools and Software.

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. The global business environment is decomposing into smaller yet more profitable markets, so businesses can no longer rely on scaling up to compete, but must instead embrace a new economies of unscale. That has now changed.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market.

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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. Your book argues that they're wrong. Why's that?

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.