Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organizations. Start with the work, not the “job” or the technology. Today’s supply chains track the components of products at both an atomized and aggregate level.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Outsourcing Call Center Organization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

8, to invest in small firms to test out new technologies – such as advanced data analytics or new ways to deliver products – before bringing them in-house. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 15

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

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

MAY 7, 2013

A study undertaken by researchers from the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. 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

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. But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way. Consider how global value chains are evolving.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It turns out that the results are much better when humans are removed from the decision-making process. Now, algorithms make the decisions and instruct humans throughout the supply chain on which products to make, in what quantities, and where to deliver them. VirtuOz is far from the only technology delegating to humans.

Delegation 8

Delegation Supply Chain Merchandising Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

Health Care 9

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. 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. Insight Center.

Intellectual Capital 9

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development. The conversations underscored that technologies that save women in more developed countries are totally impractical in places without refrigeration or electricity.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 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. All-In Autonomy.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 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. Make public policy proactive, not reactive. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

To offer a few examples – this year in our annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, we shared more information about the diversity of our global team than ever before, and we publicly stated our plans to promote diversity in our workforce and in our supply chain. Mary Hassett, CHRO, Lam Research.

Diversity 52

Diversity Agility Supply Chain Globalization 52

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. In a previous post , I described how U.K.

Customer Intimacy 10

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 10