Apparel Development Operations Talent 
Kates Kesler
JUNE 11, 2014
We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?
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Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.
Harvard Business
JULY 30, 2018
The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)
Harvard Business
JULY 8, 2016
The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 5, 2018
But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.
Kates Kesler
JANUARY 25, 2013
Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. A clear approach to operating governance is the key to making the tension in the matrix work for customers, shareholders and the assorted teams inside the business. Nike’s money-making matrix.
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