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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

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.

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Currency Lessons: Think a Sinking Currency is Always Good For Manufacturers?

MishTalk

How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?" Bhatia, head of the enterprise business at television maker Videocon Industries, said in an August 21 interview. How Can Businesses Operate in A currency Freefall? There''s theory and then there''s practice. Brazil and India have both noticed the distinction.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

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.

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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. These four roles serve as the basis for differentiating responsibilities between the global center and the regional operating units. The global/local tension.

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How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

Harvard Business

And we surveyed over 2,000 individuals who do modern work inside of large enterprises. So, these are enterprises with over 1,000 employees. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Pursuing growth this way can put tremendous pressure on your enterprise to extend into new markets that seem hot — but where your enterprise has no capabilities to win. They lead you to new revenues — at first — but the end results are often counterproductive.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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