Kates Kesler
APRIL 17, 2016
A well-designed organization structure brings management attention to the nodes where value and capabilities are created—the intersection of customers, brands, products, emerging markets, functional expertise, and other strategic choices. Often, rewarded complexity is a result of making things simpler or more compelling for customers.
Harvard Business
MARCH 21, 2018
But his framework also offers a model for rethinking the traditional four P’s of marketing: product , price , place , and promotion. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services. Consumers typically associate big food companies with mass-production methods and plastic packaging.
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Kates Kesler
JUNE 11, 2014
We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2016
Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Household Products. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology. Cloud Computing. Hardware & Software. Food & Beverage. Commercial Oil.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two?
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