Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise.

Operations 15

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T., general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. So I began a practice I've kept up to this day.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Collins Long-term Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. But, as participants in these programs regularly articulate, they are insufficient without access to capital and markets.

Globalization 15

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. market for inconsistent care delivery by providers and dysfunctional payment by health plans. jobs at home.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

This is not even a marketing partnership. Games leaders have worked hard to award contracts to smaller suppliers across the country and tracked this as far down the supply chain as possible. Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it. Procurement has been reworked in a similarly radical way.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Involve your head of marketing and human resources early. ” Marvin Chow, VP of Global Marketing at Google, emphasizes how important it is to create a vision and then build and show momentum. Customers, employees, and partners are watching to see how the company reacts. Are you being transparent?

Crisis 16

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.

Efficiency 11

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

For them, sustainability is a thing to tackle, a functional area; it's a what , like marketing or product development. Most large companies have now appointed a lead on sustainability, but have provided limited financial support and fewer human resources. I've seen it time and again in the companies that I work with or study.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Business Model Quality Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. They also simplified checkouts and shelf restocking processes and equipment.

Retail 15

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost.

Company 15

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets? How could digital printing improve your innovation, product development, and speed to market?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In many and diverse sectors of the global economy, new web-based business models being hatched for the Internet of Things are bringing together market players who previously had no business dealings with each other. Given the reality of limited resources, this lands many traditional product companies at a crossroads.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Human capital.

Intellectual Capital 9

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Voices we heard in this “market research” told us that pregnant women may walk for miles through dangerous floodlands and game reserves to get to a place where they can deliver. On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. This was a notable success — but what if we combined the insights and resources of a life science company and health provider that were both focused on, say, acute cardiovascular diseases? The options are tangible.

Health Care 9

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For the average manager, it is a reminder of the argument we made in Beyond HR , that human capital deserves to be treated with the same rigor as financial capital and other tangible resources, and to bring that rigor by applying frameworks developed in more quantitative disciplines like finance, supply chain and marketing.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The selection of what to work on and the accompanying measures must be market relevant, standardized, and measured rapidly. Its 20 founding members should encourage others in their local markets to participate in their initiatives. Additionally, they must be meaningful to the employer, beneficiaries, and the care providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Second, young businesses tend to grow faster than older ones, but also fail at greater rates. Challenge risk financing conventions. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Retailers today invest millions of dollars on marketing campaigns to drive customers into stores but don’t invest in labor planning to ensure that traffic is converted into sales. But the important message is that an effective stable scheduling initiative is not a simple human resources issue.

Retail 9

Retail Productivity Products Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Burt studied managers in the supply chain of Raytheon, the large electronics company and military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts, he discovered that the company had no trouble coming up with good ideas but considerable difficulty turn­ing these ideas into reality. Learn more about your market value.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Going to market effectively these days, no matter what business you''re in, means relating to customers as individuals — even if there are millions of them. retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers.

Customer Intimacy 10

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Department of Labor’s Office of the Chief Economist — have been hard hit by the consequences of fissuring for some time, those with college and graduate educations, even in professions once regarded as protected from the ups and downs of churning labor markets, are being affected as well.

Compliance 14

Compliance Supply Chain Hotels Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

A third apparent motivation was to corner the local physician market in order to obtain more favorable rates from health insurers. Both enrollment and financial performance under these contracts have been disappointing in most markets. This seemed to have been a major rationale for St.

Insurance 9

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 9