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.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s a crucial distinction and an important one to make clear at the outset of a project, or the laying down of a strategy or indeed job description, as most people tend to say ‘innovate’ when we actually mean ‘invent.’ Be aware of cultural signals and market dynamics. Be skeptical, and challenge established thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

By becoming SQF certified, you’re demonstrating your commitment to providing your supply chain and clients with products of the highest quality. To Broaden Your Market Reach. The top multinational manufacturers and retailers now demand that companies that supply them with products become SQF certified.

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How To Supply Chain Document System 65

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. He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. Our first hire in Ecuador was a great man named Fausto.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Marketing Advertising Technology Content 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. A roundtable conversation with our advisers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. marketplace model today. It indeed is.

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Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 122

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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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.

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Marketing Content Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Here are some considerations for businesses contemplating a Go-to-India strategy: Market Selection. How do you build trust and verify the integrity of the market participants? What can you learn from other emerging markets (Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, etc.)? What can we do to independently monitor our supply chain?

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Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger. Sokopepe uses SMS and web tools to offer market information and farm record management services to farmers.

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Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The problem with going from a one-person organization to a larger one is that all aspects of your business need to be able to effectively scale with you, including your website, supply chain, manufacturing process, logistics, and admin to name a few! You can even use your expertise to help with your marketing efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020. It’s gone digital.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

The partnership — later named the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium , or NDEMC — would revolutionize how America's manufacturing supply chain does business. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. Is the marketplace is a profitable business idea in 2020?

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. These include access to digital goods and services, being part of global supply chains, accelerating and partaking in the fruits of innovation, and helping citizens access information, entertainment, and connectivity on a worldwide basis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. In some industries, 3D printing is projected to reach the mainstream in three to ten years. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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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.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. Second, Bedore spoke about how Walmart thinks about its investments in green power: "There is an ROI calculation on all sustainability investments like on all projects, but.we

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks. Lastly, don’t underestimate the cultural barriers.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products? 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.

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Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. We are not proposing the elimination of functions. Adapted from. Strategy That Works.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. This is typical of the stage of Big Bang Disruption we refer to as “Entropy,” when the supply chain supporting products and services displaced by a disruptive innovation collapse into a kind of economic black hole.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

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Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

In more developed nations where trust is often strong, maintaining consumer safety and building a competitive job market may be vital concerns. By listening to the needs of the community, my client was able to complete their project faster while building a foundation of trust with their stakeholders.

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