Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

Operations 28

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 28

LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. Autopsy #1 – Borders. What do you think?

Change Management 34

Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

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. Index funds, meanwhile, are a cause of heated debate.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

In such a market, creating a clear definition of quality aligns the production and purchase of and payment for care. Virtuous cycles of increasing value are created as purchasers play the lead role in identifying the most efficient and effective providers. Solutions become practical and efficient rather than ideology-based.

Efficiency 28

Efficiency Fashion Marketing Data 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Define the product specifications. Don’t pay for defective products. It is a costly mistake.

Operations 28

Operations Tools Groups Report 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities.

Financial 28

Financial Report Company Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

The model simultaneously compared sales of different types of products with local demographic and financial statistics to come up with a single efficiency measure for each salesperson relative to their peers. Unfortunately, the company lacked the infrastructure to directly implement the trained model in a production setting.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. As a result, Belvedere’s greenhouse gas emissions have dropped by 40%.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

With profits from opium cultivation nearing $1 billion, or 4 percent of gross domestic product, insurgency groups like the Taliban will only benefit from the cash crop. The US-led coalition has rejected any crop eradication operations by its soldiers for fear of bankrupting farmers and forcing them to join the insurgency.

Retail 77

Retail Industry Sales Fashion 77

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations. It helps make their businesses more efficient and more profitable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Small Business 28

Small Business Policies Operations Fashion 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In focus groups we’ve run, customers report that one of their biggest sources of frustration is the feeling that they’re being treated in a generic, robotic fashion and that the rep is trying to rush them off the phone rather than taking the time required to make sure their issue is resolved. And customers can tell.

Metrics 35

Metrics Video Fashion Report 35

freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

This continues through the various pathways in order to search and navigate through the website, for example 'premium best buys', 'in demand' products, fly out pictures for further visual recognition and extensive filtering options for advanced search as well as a quick search.

Retail 41

Retail Trends Sales Productivity 41

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

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.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. ABIe pulls its answers from a data warehouse, where all the knowledge relating to the company’s products and processes has been organized.

Company 28

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. With that background, please consider the Extreme Tech report FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator. Escrow accounts were not as protected.

Pharmaceuticals 77

Pharmaceuticals Industry Operations Chemicals 77

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

A few years after our visit, Kelly wrote an influential article on his personal blog that captures the conundrum of shifting to an exponential mindset: [W]hile progress runs on exponential curves, our individual lives proceed in a linear fashion. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.”

Chemicals 43

Chemicals Energy Case Interview Resources 43

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. Performance means more than clearing a metric — it also means reliable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain models that perform well in production. Engineering excellence is a must.

Data 53

Data Engineering Fashion System 53

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Now anyone with a great product and access to an online fulfilment or marketplace platform can use social media and word of mouth to bootstrap an overnight customer community that traditional brands once would have taken years to build. The big retailers are getting squeezed and disintermediated at both ends.

Retail 28

Retail Data Fashion Construction 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. We do this through collaboration and sharing.

Benchmarking 36

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 36

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Ambiguity around personal goals, leads to anxiety, misplaced effort and lost productivity. From the early concept of Quality Circles (circa 1970) to more recent experimentation with self–direction, teamworking can positively affect morale, innovation and productivity. Am I the goalkeeper or the centre forward?

Energy 40

Energy System Advertising Management 40