Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a bonus tip, it is more important than ever to remember that your team is made of humans and this is an extremely difficult time for humans. For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work. Take advantage.

How To 65

How To Leadership Uncertainty Long-term 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

As a bonus tip, it is more important than ever to remember that your team is made of humans and this is an extremely difficult time for humans. For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work. Take advantage.

Leadership 65

Leadership Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 65

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Digital business reached a tipping point in 2018 as organizations scaled their digital capabilities. Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Without the breathing room to invest in new equipment and technologies, smaller manufacturers may be up to 40% less productive than large companies—a gap so sizable that it drags down the entire sector’s performance. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Luxury brands can work proactively here by tipping off the police and e-commerce firms to counterfeiters. Invest in anti-counterfeit technology. QR and RFID schemes can use blockchain technology to prevent fraud and counterfeiting. It takes counterfeiters a month to reverse engineer a genuine product and bring it to market.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Merchandising Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

” But recently, digital transformations have reached the tipping point where digital has become “business as usual”; the tail has become the dog. How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? Digital is not just part of the economy — it is the economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

Your supply chain plays a huge role in your success. This was, however, just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Many businesses had their operations disrupted through a lack of supplies. Leveraging technology may be key to your post-COVID19 success. This was partly due to many producers having to shut down.

Strategy 111

Strategy Long-term Supply Chain Transportation 111

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. “And advances in technology, along with increasingly complex supply chains, magnify the problem.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Not surprisingly, the executives who run these chains are pretty focused on data. Our expectations of data are rapidly reaching the same tipping point of other types of innovations that we don’t give a second thought to anymore. Insight Center.

Call Center 8

Call Center Supply Chain Committee Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

The technology exists to revolutionize commercial lighting: LED bulbs and today’s intelligent digital controls systems can together provide higher-quality indoor environments while saving significant energy and money. Lighting is a perfect candidate for this sort of innovative service contract. Lumens-as-a-Service. How It Works.

Short-term 9

Short-term Energy Long-term System 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. We wouldn''t dream of going backwards on any of the new technologies, from a laptop to a typewriter, from a mobile phone to a rotary one, from email to an answering machine. Telepresence will happen.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.”

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe. Sponsored by Accenture.

Training 10

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Here are some tips for a useful innovation tour: Tip 1: Look for the “software,” not the “hardware.” Tip 2: Talk to all the actors, not just entrepreneurs. Tip 3: Talk to people in mixed groups rather than in isolation. Tip 4: Pay more attention to scale-up and growth, than to startup.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

The success of the proposal requesting increased disclosure by ExxonMobil suggests that we have reached a tipping point within the investment community in the recognition of climate risks. Despite the company’s board recommendation that investors to vote against the proposal, a striking 62.2%

Tips 8

Tips Supply Chain Proposal Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. The share of U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10