Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. To get a clearer, more-complete picture, we studied actual decisions made by 1,500 apparel and footwear shoppers in the United States. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

Apparel 11

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. At Procter & Gamble, for instance, technology says it’s time to remind parents about Pampers, while analytics says that direct marketing is the best way to do it. Make room for new technologies. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. As new technologies shift customer journeys and expectations, they can (and should) also enhance companies’ abilities to engage with customers in the most relevant ways. Don’t be loyal to the status quo.

Loyalty 14

Loyalty Marketing Maslow Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Technologically, Tencent’s WeChat may seem like a WhatsApp knockoff, but it allows users to do a multitude of things that other messaging apps cannot.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. .”

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. But users of the service don’t actually shop for clothes; in fact, Stitch Fix doesn’t even have an online store. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

If you walk into a department store today, you are probably talking to a guy who is untrained; he was selling vacuum cleaners yesterday, and now he is in the apparel section. Developing a bold but executable strategy starts with making sure leaders have addressed the questions of “What are we great at? It just does not work.”

Execution 16

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The show, which employs a flagship “edutainment reality” TV format, follows the journey of nine young and aspiring innovators from around the region as they attempt to develop and create their inventions at the laboratories of Qatar Science & Technology Park, a member of QF.

Content 8

Content Apparel Innovation Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

I met the team at Vineyard Vines while doing research about data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted , and was able to learn firsthand about the company’s beginnings, and what has made them so successful today. Enter Fayez Mohamood and his team at Bluecore, a retail marketing automation platform.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

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). If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. What they found surprised them.

Simon 11

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. None of these are easy questions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

As the company releases a constant stream of videos, conferences, apparel, equipment, and music, the brand has become a phenomenon. Instead of following a single trend, the brand thrived on several complementary developments and so was able to lead its own movement. It started with a bold vision.

Long-term 8

Long-term Trends Brand Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

2 spot, Rebook tried to develop a credible rival to Nike''s "air" technology — the Energy Return System , a group of shock-absorbent tubes under the midsole of its shoes, and The Pump , an inflation device that provided personalized fit and cushioning. While each technology bumped sales, something was still missing.

Company 9

Company Apparel Brand Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. But the responsibilities of the CDO will be required.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. .” The vision thing.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The traditional paradigm for supply-chain management is to develop sophisticated tools to generate forecasts that accurately predict the value and the level of uncertainty of future demand. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Why does this matter? Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. The second strategy is to bring seemingly competitive groups together to talk about the dynamics and intentionally develop steps to make both parties more successful.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

It had focused on operational improvements inside the proverbial four walls of its factory — things like more efficiently heating and cooling the tomatoes and developing novel ways to pack the paste for shipment to customers. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Fashion apparel is an excellent example.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. They said, ''This kid is a fad. Everyone laughed."

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Sectors calling for action included banking (Bank of America, Citi, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo), the apparel industry (including Levi, Gap, Adidas, VF), and the World Economic Forum, which brought 79 CEOs together to urge action. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. After a terrible fire killed many workers in Bangladesh apparel factories, European retailers Primark and C&A worked to establish long-term compensation funds for victims and their families. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Deep concerns about labor conditions, wages, and equity take root: From tragedies in Bangladeshi apparel factories to minimum wages in the U.S. Travesties like the death of more than 1100 workers at the Rana Plaza apparel factory in Bangladesh are increasingly unacceptable to the buying public. So what’s really new this year?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Energy Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. They will benefit the most from being mentored.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Over the course of several months, a digital platform was developed that could capture every fan interaction (whether a mobile check-in at the stadium, a profile update on the website, or a merchandise purchase online), deliver targeted promotional campaigns, and collect club mentions and other data from social media.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. At many of the largest companies, in industries like aerospace and technology, limited budgets are not an obstacle. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15