Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines.

Lean Manufacturing 13

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations. Most large companies have now appointed a lead on sustainability, but have provided limited financial support and fewer human resources.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Business Model Quality Trends 14

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. They are taking control of their health care supply chains. It is a costly mistake. physical therapy.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Retail 14

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 14

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, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

Supply Chain 14

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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Involve your head of marketing and human resources early. But sometimes it’s a symptom of a deeper problem in your culture, product, or operating model. Customers, employees, and partners are watching to see how the company reacts. Are you being transparent? Are you taking responsibility? You and Your Team Series.

Crisis 15

Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 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

APRIL 20, 2017

Deconstructing the “job” reveals that the human still plays an important role. While the human “co-pilot” no longer does the work of routine navigation and piloting, they still do things like observing the driverless operation, and stepping in to assist with unusual or dangerous situations.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Outsourcing Call Center Organization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations.

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. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Then our head of supply chain would do the same. When was the last time you overrode your human-resources systems to reward them? The head of HR would stand up and talk about HR excellence and outline a 10-step program to bring us up to a world-class standard.

Company 14

Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. Indeed, corporations like Kraft, consider role rotation standard for building well-rounded leaders , and actively invite promising line managers to take on staff jobs and the reverse.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

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

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. Medtronic is using big data and advanced analytics to drive their approach to patient and physician support and manage supply chains. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk.

Health Care 9

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 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. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And while employers operate across state lines, very few providers do. The corporations in the HTA are seeking to improve the supply chain for the 4 million people covered by their plans. Remember that the actors in this system — payers, purchasers, and providers — do not have a history of trust and working together.)

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. But when a company needs the support of a supply chain partner, for example, it must also give the potential partner a compelling reason to back the strategy.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Cost 8

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

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. But the important message is that an effective stable scheduling initiative is not a simple human resources issue. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

Retail 8

Retail Products Productivity Cost 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.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers. The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. Collaboration Marketing Operations'

Customer Intimacy 11

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Human Resources Market Segmentation 11

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Understanding the Chief Data Role The modern data executive embodies a shift in mindset: information is recognized as a strategic driver, not just a byproduct of business operations. This unification can spur meaningful changesimproved product development cycles, efficiency gains, and greater operational resilience.

Competitive Advantage 195

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Compliance Agility 195

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. Management should then quantify and budget the expected return on the practice’s operational loss. Strengthen operations.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8