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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

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.

Apparel

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals

Rewarded vs. Unrewarded Complexity in Organizations

Kates Kesler

APRIL 17, 2016

Unrewarded Complexity: Unnecessary layers, P&L units, dual reporting, and duplication combined with ineffective management and business processes and metrics are the recipe for unrewarded complexity. We are working with a large apparel company now that has successfully managed a complex matrix for a number of years.

Apparel

Apparel Metrics Retail System

BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Marketing & Sales. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology. Cloud Computing. Hardware & Software. Food & Beverage. Household Products.

Groups

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview

AI Marketing Solutions Benefits to Businesses

Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, tools like HubSpot or Mailchimp can automatically segment audiences, schedule campaigns, and analyze performance metrics. For instance, a clothing retailer might use AI to target ads for winter coats to customers in colder regions while promoting summer apparel to those in warmer climates.

Marketing

Marketing ROI Tools Trends

Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Instead of thinking of itself merely as a sports apparel manufacturer, the company has purposefully developed a “connected fitness” ecosystem. In 2015, in fact, it spent more than $500 million to acquire two popular fitness-metrics services in a bid to become the world’s largest tracker of fitness information.

Marketing

Marketing Apparel Retail Company

Localized US Market Management for Best Results

Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For example, a clothing retailer might stock lightweight apparel in warmer states and winter wear in colder regions. Use analytics tools to measure key metrics such as sales, website traffic, and customer feedback across different regions. Similarly, a food brand could introduce regionally inspired flavors to cater to local tastes.

Marketing

Marketing Management Advertising Apparel

An Emotional Connection Matters More than Customer Satisfaction

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes.

Retail

Retail Apparel Financial ROI

Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. New metrics and incentives may be required to make collaboration rational for local managers. Global brands (and aspiring global brands) often represent only a portion of the company’s growth potential.

Agile

Agile Analysis Apparel Resources

Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. Enormous opportunities also lie with e-waste.

Company

Company Apparel Retail Metrics

When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

What they found surprised them. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. Ergo: heuristics win. There are other areas where the heuristic advantage might be even greater.

Retail

Retail Apparel Financial Case Interview

Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

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. And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent.

Strategy&

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Company

Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial

How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. In this distributed workforce, stylists are measured by a variety of metrics, including the amount of money a client spends, client satisfaction, and the number of items a client keeps per delivery.

Company

Company Fashion Apparel Trends

A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Here you “benchmark the key revenue and cost metrics in your business against the market and against firms offering the most-comparable products.” One of the growth vectors they identified was moving into the production of high-end apparel that would be sold in department stores. .” Step 2: Do benchmarking.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel

The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Couldn’t you reach them this way?

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail

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