Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  My friend told me about an executive she knows named Bill who's been with the company for more than 30 years and who, through his leadership and tough love mentoring, has developed two generations of world class supply chain managers.  That's a legacy that's going to outlast Bill.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

While product fulfillment was traditionally considered a supply chain function far removed from customer experience, the rise of the omnichannel shopper and on-demand services such as UberRUSH and Postmates are blurring those conventional lines.

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Retail Supply Chain Loyalty Reis 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Hold a facilitated workshop to let employees hear each other out, agree on a set of initiatives and establish working groups to execute on them. The next step, a facilitated workshop , allows employees at different levels to acknowledge issues and develop solutions, while the new leader listens in "surround sound".

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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. The result?

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

During my “Design the Work You Love” workshop, Mickey McManus, AutoDesk research fellow and Chairman of Maya Design, shared an experiment in reverse thinking that captured my imagination. McManus essentially switched roles with his intern Lisa Rotzinger — Lisa became the boss, and Mickey an “exit-level intern.”

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. They enable many successful transformation efforts, but then lack the data to demonstrate the link between cause and effect that a marketing or supply chain professional takes for granted.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. His response led to a constructive conversation about successful supply chain collaborations with key customers. They just want us to build to their requirements as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. The Olympics can bring a halt to "business as usual" for the host government as well, as it diverts resources to support and police the event.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit. For example, adjusting supply chains can take up to nine months or longer depending on internal and external constraints.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The best way to get the team in synch is to assemble the key stakeholders of a process in a multi-day workshop to map the current and future process, identify areas of improvement, and define an implementation plan. After the workshop, everyone will have a common vision of what they are trying to jointly achieve.

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Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

I have seen this truth revealed again and again in my five years as senior managing director at the Drucker Institute, where I lead the Un/Workshops consulting practice. The workshop did not include a single PowerPoint slide or digital simulation. I’m convinced the usual PowerPoint parade would not have paused to expose that gap.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with… Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps. 18-020: NRC Oversight Workshop to Focus on Vendor Inspection Activities. Source: Nuclear Power Daily Published on 2018-11-18. Operating Events. NRC Daily Event Report.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To tackle the growing problem of overfishing, they mapped the current supply chain, identified entrepreneurs who are working to fix failing parts of the process, and then supported them to succeed.

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System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As part of our research to understand these attributes, we interviewed scores of founders and ran dozens of workshops with leaders of the Founder’s Mentality 100 (a network of fast-growth, mostly founder-led companies). I want my supply chain team fighting to rationalize, to look for scale benefits.

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