Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the apparel sector, for example, buyers must place peak-season orders six months in advance. This article discusses how today’s supply chain technology can help businesses build more resilience into their supply chains moving forward. What they need is a more modern, more responsive supply chain platform.

Supply Chain 29

Supply Chain Technology Apparel Globalization 29

Steve Farber

JANUARY 9, 2017

Technology. A recent study by Korn Ferry found that 63 percent of the 800 leaders they interviewed said technology will be their firm’s greatest source of competitive advantage within five years. And 67 percent said technology will create greater value in the future than people. Technology is important.

Competitive Advantage 63

Competitive Advantage Letter Apparel Welch 63

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 19, 2015

These leaders understand that while modern technological advances might change the way we connect, work, and share ideas, it doesn’t change what matters to us – what’s in our hearts and what makes us feel like we’re making a difference with our lives.

Leadership 100

Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Apparel 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2019

However they want to choose what kind of engine it will have, the paint scheme, the interior, the technology and the additional accessories like a roof rack option. That’s why a CQB apparel configurator is something that you need to provide for businesses that want to quickly see how much their unique demands will cost.

Apparel 58

Apparel Retail Software Fashion 58

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

” The researchers offer instances from several industries such as sports, telecommunications, apparel, and automotive, to demonstrate how leaders utilize underdog narratives to motivate and fulfill their organizations’ objectives.

Motivation 52

Motivation Team Telecommunications Apparel 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Printful: Simplify Print-On-Demand Merchandise Printful makes it easy to create and sell custom merchandise, including apparel, accessories, and more. As technology evolves and consumer behaviours change, stay equipped with the right plugin to ensure that your store remains competitive in the digital marketplace.

Merchandising 89

Merchandising Loyalty Word of Mouth Marketing ROI 89

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

In the booming era of the digital revolution, technological trends are no surprise to anyone. Pick an influencer of your niche – for instance, if you have an apparel brand, look for influencers who follow fashion. Despite the competition getting intense, technology continues to bring new tools and tactics to keep the users hooked.

Marketing Strategy 67

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 67

Steve Farber

JANUARY 9, 2017

Technology. A recent study by Korn Ferry found that 63 percent of the 800 leaders they interviewed said technology will be their firm’s greatest source of competitive advantage within five years. And 67 percent said technology will create greater value in the future than people. Technology is important.

Competitive Advantage 40

Competitive Advantage Letter Apparel Welch 40

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 16

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 16

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 14

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. The choice is truly that stark.

Automotive 9

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. Locke of Brown University.

Lean Manufacturing 13

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 13

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 16

Loyalty Marketing Maslow Apparel 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Technological advances based on the Bartender model will also push the boundaries of healthcare into new retail frontiers.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The right technologies, however, can be incredibly valuable, driving customer satisfaction and possibly even providing a sustainable competitive advantage. Start by identifying those, and then use digital technology to alleviate them. The second lever is to use digital technology to materially improve customer service.

Trends 13

Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

Business Model 11

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

Technology companies have done this particularly well. Disney's business models span the media, entertainment, toy, apparel, and travel industries. We believe more consumer facing companies beyond technology and media will adopt MBM going forward, and that single business model companies in many industries will find it hard to compete.

Business Model 14

Business Model Advertising Retail Supply Chain 14

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 9

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 9

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. Take, for example, the debate over economic competition between China and the U.S. But at the economic level, competition is much more nuanced and even muted.

Apparel 16

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Customers Decision making Information & technology' What they found surprised them. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. “If If you are in a world that’s highly predictable, make it complex.”

Simon 14

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 14

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. Industrial Revolution.”

Drucker 13

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

Our system of competition yields amazing results — incredible technological innovation provided in massive quantities very quickly. Yes, to some degree, since other companies with deep connections to China have done better on working conditions (a Times source name checks HP, Intel, and Nike for example).

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 17

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 14

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 14

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. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance. Next, they ensure that the company is investing behind the change.

Execution 18

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

By leveraging connected mobile devices such as smartphones, existing in-venue Wi-Fi networks, low cost Bluetooth-enabled beacons, and a handful of other technologies, location analytics vendors have made it possible to get location analytics solutions up and running fast at a minimal cost. Retail Technology'

Retail 11

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 11

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 11

Company Apparel Brand Advertising 11

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 11

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. Advertising Sales Technology' To come to these, and other, conclusions, we constructed a massive dataset of television advertising in 2010 ( the year tablet sales skyrocketed ). billion in U.S.

Advertising 13

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 11

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

We looked at the three biggest segments — packaging, food waste, and apparel. No one wants to lease a phone, if you ask them that way, but if you position it that they will get a new phone with the latest technology every year, the value proposition gets more compelling. We work with Renault.

Company 13

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By lowering the "China price," the world's low-cost manufacturer is doing to solar what it did to the apparel and electronics sectors: driving higher-cost producers (usually in the West) out of business. Once technologies take off, doublings can happen pretty fast — just ask the investors in the Internet, mobile or social media.

Energy 10

Energy Apparel Cost Entrepreneur 10

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. Is CDO the next step for the aspiring CIO-Plus?

CIO 9

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 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 13

Supply Chain McKinsey Energy Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

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. Short of “owning” the problem, this still acknowledges that others associate the problem with you, and you are in a position to make a difference.

Golden Parachute 14

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 14

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. They keep abreast of new technology, demographic shifts, consumer tastes, laws, resource prices, and competitive behavior.

Long-term 9

Long-term Trends Brand Succession 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., We also looked at results by industry and region.

Telecommunications 10

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right.

Content 10

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 10