Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

This is because you are going against your gut reactions, which is what you need for you to fight mental blindspots in your business and career. Your company will need to make major changes to remain operational. Anticipate that there will be major disruptions to your supply chains, particularly to your service providers.

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Supply Chain Short-term Strategic Planning Long-term 222

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Operations managers have a tough and challenging role, particularly in 2021. If you’re working in operations management, or you aspire to become an operations supervisor, take a look at some of the challenges you’ll be facing in 2021: 1. Supply Chain Uncertainty. Building a Career in Operations Management.

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Operations Supply Chain Management Transportation 69

Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 23, 2022

By understanding the complexities involved in automotive logistics and utilizing the latest technologies and methods, companies can improve operations across all stakeholders, including customers, employees, and shareholders. . Process automation is a great way to reduce manual labor while increasing the speed and accuracy of operations.

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Automotive Company Long-term How To 229

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. At this stage of my career I tend to look at the nature of the engagement more than I do my rate schedule.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Lead from Within

MARCH 1, 2024

Ignoring these advancements may leave your organization struggling to keep up with competitors who harness the power of AI to enhance their operations, customer experiences, and overall competitiveness. Leaders should proactively explore how AI can augment their operations, leading to more efficient processes and improved outcomes.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Technology Operations 177

Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Analyze which areas of your operations could benefit the most from AI integration. Supply chain management? Artificial Intelligence for Managers: Leverage the Power of AI to Transform Organizations & Reshape Your Career by Thomas H. Is it customer service? Product recommendations?

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Supply Chain Ethics Case Study Handbook 195

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

In today’s ever-evolving job market, individuals are constantly on the lookout for career paths that promise stability, growth, and fulfillment. One such path that often flies under the radar is consumer non-durables a good career path. But is it a good career path? They play a crucial role in maintaining consumer trust.

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Career Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals Industry 60

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

It can help you hone your ideas, catch supply chain concerns, and vet marketability before taking your venture into the real world. Upon graduation, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the business environment will open up many career options and increase your earning potential.

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Supply Chain Entrepreneur COO Career 106

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Support Local Charities and Nonprofits Charities and nonprofits operate with donations from other companies. Having any volunteer experience will help them ahead in their career. Adopt Ethical Supply Chain Practices Building an ethical supply chain system is another effective way to become a socially responsible company.

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Supply Chain Ethics NGO Education 83

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations.

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Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 85

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

An analysis of company performance and the career trajectory of S&P 500 CEOs revealed how a background in supply-chain management helps companies weather unanticipated disruptions.

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Supply Chain CEO Analysis Career 24

Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Been busy driving improvements at your organisation?

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Supply Chain Newsletter Finance Article 98

HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an HR with plans of becoming a CHRO, you would be on the losing path if your entire career is focused on administration and HR functions. A recent study by Moore Survey published by Women of HR found that 60% of CHROs didn’t start their careers as an HR. How is the supply chain related to sales? What does that mean?

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How To Supply Chain Analysis Skills 45

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

You could also study health management, operations management, global leadership, or supply chain & enterprise resource planning. Once your business considerably increases its profit margin, you should quit your career to focus on your new company. Start Your Business While Employed. Start Networking.

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Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 67

Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2020

You could also study health management, operations management, global leadership, or supply chain & enterprise resource planning. Once your business considerably increases its profit margin, you should quit your career to focus on your new company. Start Your Business While Employed. Start Networking.

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Supply Chain How To Brand Audience 65

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

A few ways we do this at Intel is through: RISE: In May 2020, we outlined our 2030 RISE strategy and corporate responsibility goals for the next decade to accelerate the integration of responsible, inclusive, and sustainable practices and innovative approaches in our operations and supply chain, across the technology industry, and beyond.

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Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking.

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Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook's career followed a very different path. Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles. To this day, Cook continues as one of the best when it comes to operational excellence. The rest is history, technically and financially.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. Cross-training helps employees build capabilities that they can leverage in their career growth. Of course, that’s good for the business, but it also makes the job better for workers.

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Training Industry Operations Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

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Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 21

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. No career paths absolutely require an MBA—it’s an optional degree and is nothing like a JD, an MD or the other credentials that professions such as law and medicine make mandatory.

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth. This was crazy, we initially thought. The more we probed the more obvious it became that the "excess" diversification was rational when viewed at the right level.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Several years ago, she was asked to build and run a small team that would invest in start-ups aimed at bringing new technology into the company’s supply chain. Howard ended up with a bigger job in a different part of the organization.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

But in the meantime, what can you do in an up-or-out environment to build your career without inflicting collateral damage? He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies. Dan helped improve this design, sharing a concept that his operations center used to secure other types of equipment for easy movement.

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Supply Chain Operations Conference Restructuring 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. Coca-Cola sees five thousand women entrepreneurs as part of its global supply chain by 2020.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Turn to manufacturing and note that supply chains first shifted from vertical to horizontal, in-house to global. Then they moved from chains of contracted suppliers to networks of peer producers. Publishers are not producers of one finished stream of information but aggregators of many, from raw to polished.

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Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

They’re most successful when they have the everyday flexibility they need to meet the demands of their professional life and accomplish the things they identify as priorities outside of their career.” ” As more workers work flexibly or remotely, companies will need to change the way they operate.

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Supply Chain Policies Learning-by-Doing Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The Corporate Elite continued to do what they did most of their careers: increase efficiencies, boost scale, and lower costs to maximize profits. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. And most CEOs who talked about using Design Thinking to remake their companies' culture appeared to choose globalization over innovation.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

When Tex Gunning, a Dutch CEO who has made a career of leading companies out of crises of growth, took the reins of TNT, a troubled express-package delivery company centered in Europe, he spent the first six weeks not in his headquarters office, but at the front lines of the business—in the depots, on the trucks, and with customers.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

As organizations run leaner and flatter, your ability to move up can stall much earlier in your career because, simply put, there’s no place to go. So what should you do when you reach that plateau and you’re only midway through your career? This is true whether you work for a corporation, nonprofit, or public agency.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. As corporations rethink their global supply chains and business models, creating ecosystems of suppliers and aspiring entrepreneurs could be part of the solution.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While there is no guidebook of straightforward answers to your new challenges , having a clear philosophy can provide a firm foundation from which to operate. With respect to your career, a philosophy is simply a cohesive way of thinking about your role. Very few people take the time to establish one.

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Management Supply Chain Greenleaf Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like. Define your role and career path. ” Create separate spheres immediately. Have a backup plan.

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Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Supply Chain Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

When we looked at board service, we found that FOB and non-FOB directors had served on an almost identical number of boards in their careers (5.8 A similar percentage held advanced degrees: 75% of FOB directors and 77% of non-FOB directors. respectively) and were currently serving on the same number of boards (3.1). Skills and Assessment.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Larry and his team were, I think, early in realizing that operating our campus in an environmentally sustainable way was not only the right thing to do but also a sound business decision. We need both.

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