HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

The top managers are the C-suite managers and carry the titles of chiefs-- the chief executive office, the chief financial officer, the chief marketing manager, the chief operational manager, and the chief technology manager. They keep quality control over the materials supplied. Their role is to convey top-down management.

Management 87

Management Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 87

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.’ Would you briefly touch on your thinking?

Innovation 104

Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

A new generation of technology -enhanced drugs and equipment will monitor and manage the care of these patients, changing the face of health care. Singh described the new health care reality and explored how every link of the industry's supply chain will be impacted. In a recent webinar.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Health Care Webinar Project 10

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 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with… Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps. Economic demands place increasing pressure on executive and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety, reliability, and efficiency.

Execution 50

Execution Supply Chain Energy Banking 50

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. Those that do look to leverage new technologies run into financial issues. hectares of farmland. But this is about to change.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

They use technology to cook more food in less time. They have built their own standard for supply chain right from procuring raw material to delivery of these meals in schools across. I wondered too, till I visited one of their kitchens in Ahmedabad recently. Truly remarkable! Don’t Kill It!

Quality 156

Quality Innovation NGO Supply Chain 156

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. On average, those projects generated enough financial savings to pay back the loan in just three years.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This applies to every single aspect of your company, from supply chain all the way to employee management. The best option to keep track of what your work from home teams are doing is through a simple project management solution. Cloud Technology. Supply Chain Optimization.

Efficiency 98

Efficiency Supply Chain Software Travel 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Then came the cloud, which only heightened frustration with IT's lack of velocity in delivery, and managers flocked to outside vendors to automate various business processes, from customer relationship management to supply chain reporting to social media analytics. IT as Process Creator. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There are some pitfalls too that require strategic resolutions: It’s all technology : The core that drives an online marketplace business is pure technology. From the marketplace software to web-hosting, content delivery networks, third party APIs, and compliance with the laws, everything is driven by technology.

Retail 122

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 122

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

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. Data Is Deglobalizing. What Policy Makers Should Consider.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

Two years ago, at the request of the Obama Administration, the Council on Competitiveness designed a public-private partnership to equip American manufacturers with the high performance computing technology needed to out-innovate and out-compete foreign competition. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Tools Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The heads of the arrows between the network elements signify the direction of relationships.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Today, digitally recorded data describe nearly everything about our world, from highly tangible things like parts in the supply chain, inventory on the shelf, and seats on the plane to less tangible concepts like probabilities and sentiment. Information & technology Marketing' into digital-marketing efforts.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2022

In the case of ventilators, this exaptation revolved around repurposing everything from design to production technologies from industries such as aerospace and motorsports. They use the example of the microwave, which emerged out of the accidental discovery that radar components typically generate heat. Diverse inputs.

Innovation 95

Innovation Supply Chain Diversity Project 95

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks. Wherever you start, it’s important to link the projects to a long-term digital platform strategy to avoid having disconnected islands of innovation.

Process 12

Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. 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.,

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). We know it's important and that we're supposed to reduce it by increasing "turns.". But inventory is not a minor issue. I was wrong.

Energy 11

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

More than half (58%) said they were expected to know details about work and projects they believed were beneath their level, and more than half also felt they were involved in decisions that those below them should be making. This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Operating Officer Execution Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

They applied her discoveries to an Autodesk research project called Primordial, and at McManus’s urging, it was Lisa who presented the project to 400 top executives and clients. He asked her to teach him stuff, and had her give the big presentation at the end of the project.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 15, 2020

A new project between Healthcare analytics firm AdviseInc and Qlik has seen the development of a PPE tracking app to help healthcare organizations better manage their stocks. In the event of a second wave, better management of supplies is likely to be crucial to ensure the hardships experienced due to a paucity of them are not repeated.

Supply Chain 89

Supply Chain Transportation Agility Resources 89

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. They know their own work, but they don’t understand the connections to other departments (or even to others performing different roles within their same department). Care gets delayed.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There are some pitfalls too that require strategic resolutions: It’s all technology : The core that drives an online marketplace business is pure technology. From the marketplace software to web-hosting, content delivery networks, third party APIs, and compliance with the laws, everything is driven by technology.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Apple has autonomous car projects and AI-based speakers in the works. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Now, thanks to machine learning algorithms, it’s becoming possible for smart software to scrutinize data from a variety of sources — sensors on machines or changes in supply chains, for instance — and redesign processes in real time. Adaptive Robots Update Construction Projects in Real Time.

Process 9

Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Protect supply chains. Hospitals and health care systems have diversified supply chains and massive lists of vendors with whom they digitally interface. The technology can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. financial services arena. Adopt “tokenization.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8