Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Some crises need immediate intervention, while others can be addressed through a slower, more analytical fashion. Stabilizing mindset – implementing stabilizing strategies to keep the problems from getting worse, and only rushing to fix them immediately when no other option is reasonable. of dynamic chaos. Adaptive Crisis Response.

Management 63

Management System Guidelines Fashion 63

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

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

APRIL 17, 2017

Based on this cross-case analysis, we found that operational safety and data security are decisive factors in getting people to trust technology. And since negative events are more visible than positive events, operational safety alone is not sufficient for building trust.

Case Interview 32

Case Interview Transportation Healthcare System 32

Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

” Airlines are also pursuing efficiency in ways customers don’t see so easily, such as reducing the number of short-haul flights they offer and centralizing passengers in large airports. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore.

Airlines 32

Airlines Travel Industry Efficiency 32

MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

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. Adidas and Ralph Lauren already have hemp products, and Calvin Klein insists that hemp will hit the fashion industry full-force in the years to come.

Retail 77

Retail Industry Sales Fashion 77

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use.

Energy 28

Energy Productivity Retail Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

There is a new generation of real-time employee opinion tools that are starting to replace old-fashioned employee opinion surveys — tools that tell you far more than just what employees think every year. This is giving us the opportunity to experiment with different change strategies within chosen populations in the company.

Change Management 28

Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

No strategy is static. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. In short, companies that want to get into this game will have to roll up their sleeves and do some old-fashioned blocking and tackling.

Company 28

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

Shop Direct - The OC&C Strategy Consultants Pure-Play Etailer of the Year, The Zensar Retail Technology Initiative of the Year and The AlixPartners Growth Retailer of the Year – With three wins in this years awards, Shop Direct was clearly the retailer with the most clout amongst its rivals.

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

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The reason? Not so cool.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Talent Accenture 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. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue. When analytics and instinct come together, a strategy becomes more powerful.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. It now has around 10,000 operating projects.

Productivity 28

Productivity Tourism Sales Fashion 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

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The ‘workers’ (like myself) wore blue overalls; the foremen had brown coats; the supervisors were kitted out in white; the management sported double-breasted suits (the fashion at that time). This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’. During a second move the company employed a different strategy.

Energy 40

Energy System Advertising Management 40

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

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. In the U.S., days of innovation).

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 33

Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 33