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

Strategy Driven

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. Inventory Planning Has Become Crucial.

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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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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

The respective systems measured market share at different places in the overall supply chain — marketing at the retail outlet and logistics at the public warehouse. Since developing new language is part and parcel to innovation, you must not interfere with the process. Eventually a relative newcomer discovered the problem.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do.

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How Technology Is Transforming Retail - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Ocado

Harvard Business Review

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

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