Talking Logistics

AUGUST 26, 2014

As highlighted in a November 2012 HBR blog post , the Israeli company Netafim captured almost one-third of the “seemingly commoditized” micro-irrigation equipment market by changing its business model to better address the needs and constraints of its customers.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 7, 2017

From business perspective, the 1996 HBR article from Collins and Porrass; Building your Companies Vision describes how successful companies have a reason d’etre, or a bigger purpose, a Why. These potential S&OP outcomes, are among the most impactful employee engagement drivers (HBR, 2013). Read this short book.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Here’s what Harvard Business Review (HBR) got wrong about supply chain, and what we as an industry can do to make it right. HBR’s View on Supply Chain: Sound Familiar? A major premise of HBR’s article is to “pandemic proof” the supply chain. No doubt about it. You can hear from Ken’s in their own words.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Here’s what Harvard Business Review (HBR) got wrong about supply chain, and what we as an industry can do to make it right. HBR’s View on Supply Chain: Sound Familiar? A major premise of HBR’s article is to “pandemic proof” the supply chain. No doubt about it. You can hear from Ken’s in their own words.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2021

You want to come out of any negotiation feeling accomplished about what was agreed upon. The HBR Article titled ‘A New Approach to Contracts’, published in 2018 utilizes the agreement between Dell & FedEx to illustrate how a buyer-supplier relationship and agreement can turn a partnership sour quickly. A buyer and a seller.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 12, 2021

I interviewed some individuals who work in the Houston area and learned more about what happened. Some organizations had a risk playbook in play, as recommended in our r ecent HBR article on business preparedness. “It was hell.

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EazyStock

MAY 20, 2020

With little certainty about what the future holds, supply chain management (SCM) teams are looking for ways to make their operations more agile and resilient, so they’re in the best place to respond to the changing economic and social landscape. recessions and economic slowdowns. They invested in R&D and marketing.

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Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 28, 2023

As webinar panellist Paul Mol from Electrolux mentioned: ‘It is about speed and quality of decision making.’ Decision and Decision-Making Practices Are Essential A 2010 HBR article indicates that decision practices drive 95% of business improvement and 50% of employee engagement.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 22, 2019

”[1] The conundrum is that the more you know about your customers the creepier such knowledge can appear when used in questionable targeted marketing campaigns. The article notes, “According to an HBR-published study, companies that create the perfect omnichannel experience have increased their shareholder worth 8.5

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

McDonald’s has come under fire for not providing enough information about its food, the Harvard Business Review reported. Not only food companies, but the electronics, software, toy and aerospace sectors are all facing concerns about where products are coming from, according to HBR.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

McDonald’s has come under fire for not providing enough information about its food, the Harvard Business Review reported. Not only food companies, but the electronics, software, toy and aerospace sectors are all facing concerns about where products are coming from, according to HBR.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2021

About Paula Courtney . About The Verde Group. Learn More About 5 Reasons You Lose Customers. HBR Article. A passionate change agent and entrepreneur, she believes that organizations remain competitive and profitable when they are brilliant at the basics of service delivery. Paula Courtney LinkedIn. The Verde Group.

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Supply Chain Trend

APRIL 2, 2018

Culture, behaviours, emotional competence and executive meaning remained something supply chain focused consultants and coaches were not really comfortable talking about. outcomes, are among the most impactful employee engagement drivers (HBR, 2013). These elements are still happily being brushed over in many S&OP 2.0

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Either your business doesn’t need to think about remote working because the majority of staff may not be interested, or that a reasonably high proportion do want it, even if it’s not as many as in other sectors. Worried about spending money during a rocky economy? You could read this information two ways. Outsourced CFO.

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Supply Chain Opz

AUGUST 1, 2018

Davenport and Jinho Kim Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations by Scott Berinato Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know by Mark Jeffery Do you have the best statistics book you always keep within reach and want to recommend?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Intelligent IBP in the making As early as 2016, I wrote about autonomous IBP , comparing IBP to an autonomous car. Then, as a response to the ‘touchless planning’ hype, I published an article in 2019 about what is really required for ‘autonomous planning’. A similar idea that Nada describes in her book HUMACHINE.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog we are going to learn more about what to do when you discover disruption in your industry. First, what kind of innovation are we talking about? Gary Pisano offered a matrix which is now a very accepted set of innovation definitions in his HBR article , “You Need an Innovation Strategy”.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 14, 2014

For instance, the value generated through a consulting engagement may depend on both the client bringing her intimate knowledge about the problem and data and the consultant bringing her knowledge about methodologies and frameworks. Firms must make conscientious decisions about what they want to be.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2019

She writes, “The chestnut about ’70 percent of transformations fail’ has been nicely debunked – this well-researched HBR article puts the proportion of completely failed transformations closer to one-tenth.”[4] ” The point being made is that digital transformation takes real effort.

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Vinculum

APRIL 14, 2021

According to a survey conducted by HBR (Harvard Business Review), 73% of respondents said they use multiple channels while shopping for any product. LS Retail stated ”It’s also about giving your team quick access to customer information across all your channels, so they have the information they need to make the right recommendations.”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2016

For more than a decade, I’ve been talking about the rise of Supply Chain Operating Networks — the business equivalent of LinkedIn and Facebook — that serve as the platform for enabling the network effect in supply chain and logistics. Third, do something — don’t just think and talk about network effects.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A piano reminds us of a core truth about how systems function. Your customers don’t care about your silos. They care about the quality and affordability of your products and services. It’s not enough to simply learn about other business functions. At worst, it tortures all who are in earshot! See the entire ecosystem.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2021

He explains, “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends — that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans. .” When you were in third or fourth grade, you learned the algorithm for long division.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A piano reminds us of a core truth about how systems function. Your customers don’t care about your silos. They care about the quality and affordability of your products and services. It’s not enough to simply learn about other business functions. At worst, it tortures all who are in earshot! See the entire ecosystem.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 20, 2020

The HBR Analytic Services report offers this definition, adapted in part from Skymind.ai: ‘A form of machine learning but with more layers. For example, the HBR Analytic Services report notes that RPA should qualify, according to its definition of AI.” ”[5].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Micromanaging dents your team’s morale by establishing a tone of mistrust—and it limits your team’s capacity to grow,” says Karen Dillon, author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics. “If Talking directly to the individual is the best way to go about this. Disgruntled members negatively affect productivity and morale of the whole team.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 31, 2017

These vivid descriptions can further motivate and energize the planning community when they think about their envisioned future in planning. Employees know how they are expected to behave within the company whilst going about their day to day tasks. This is called Dunbar’s number and it is limited to about 150 people.

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Vinculum

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In fact, nearly 75% (source: HBR) of shoppers say they use multiple channels to compare prices, hunt for discounts, or shop online for a product they see in-store. Today’s shopper is not an easy person to please – we check out several shopping sites before we buy and if we don’t find what we need, we move on swiftly.

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Supply Chain Trend

APRIL 12, 2017

The Foresight editor Len Tashman notes about my article: “Niels van Hove has spent many years studying S&OP performance and its intimate bond with corporate culture. Carol Dweck has shown that people with a fixed mind-set believe their talent and capabilities in life are a given, and not a lot of things can be done about them.

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