Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2023

PFAS are used in hundreds of thousands of products, from nonstick pans to water-repellent sports gear, to stain-resistant rugs. For example, as of January 1, 2023, Maine requires that companies report PFAS in products by quantity to the state, and the state will ban all PFAS-containing products by 2030. If not, should it?

Apparel 73

Apparel Chemicals Automotive Sports 73

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

Retail 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. The products are shipped directly to customers’ homes, where they can browse and purchase what they like. Fabletics is a case in point. If nothing appeals, customers can skip a month at no cost.

Trends 125

Trends Hotels How To Retail 125

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. The cosmetic company responded with a new product, and backed it up with a dedicated consumer marketing plan. But brick-and-mortar retail doors are closing, especially for apparel, as shoppers take their business online.

Retail 71

Retail Apparel Media Fashion 71

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Some questions have what I like to call a catalytic quality.

Apparel 112

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 112

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

Telecommunications 128

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 128

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

Many companies are aiming to be more transparent and authentic about their products, services, and costs. Take outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia. Any effort to engage authentically must extend beyond the consumers buying your products, to the job seekers signing up for your employee experience, and to every other stakeholder group.

Recruiting 136

Recruiting Recruitment How To Apparel 136

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

It is clear that the current VP of Marketing, Lindsey Worster, is committed to this principle, as she told me: “We are all about getting the right message, about the right product, at the right time to our customer — targeted, relevant, and authentic communication is our primary goal.”

Retail 80

Retail Engineering Apparel Data 80

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 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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.

Company 70

Company Apparel Retail Metrics 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

Apparel 99

Apparel Enterprise Productivity Company 99

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

It was Schultz who famously said “You can walk into [any type of retail store] and you can feel whether the proprietor or the merchant or the person behind the counter has a good feeling about his product. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Strategy 143

Strategy Strategy Strategy& How To 143

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

After all, most companies create products or services to fill a need in the world, and all employees contribute in their own ways. Researchers led by Jochen Menges, a professor at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, found that those who described the work as dull were generally less productive than those who said it was rewarding.

Apparel 73

Apparel How To Study Productivity 73

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Nina laughed.

Case Studies 132

Case Studies Case Study Study Sales 132

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two? Among other steps, it elevated the role of customer segment heads, giving them authority over products and channels for those segments. Yet change they must.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy& Strategy Company 71

MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2013

Indian shoppers are not only cutting back on big-ticket purchases such as refrigerators, TVs or expensive branded apparel but even staples including soaps, ketchup and cosmetics.

Apparel 75

Apparel Finance Hotels Enterprise 75

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. Photo by Annie Spratt. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

Cash Flow 71

Cash Flow Apparel Financial Small Business 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. You can offer new products and services to your existing customers that complement your existing offerings. With all this in place, Starbucks can move with assurance to expand.

Company 70

Company Engineering Apparel Energy 70

Women in Consulting

JULY 13, 2018

The company must only contract for the end product, not how it is achieved. The first requirement aligns with the previously established “right to control” test and is nothing new. The independent worker must control how, when and where the work is done. In Dynamex, the company’s business was providing delivery services to various customers.

Apparel 54

Apparel Consulting Course Company 54

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

To ensure that a strong product assortment can draw people into its stores, Sears should work on buttressing relationships with the vendors of its top brands. In the same way, Sears should draw on the equity of product brands such as Kenmore Appliances, DieHard batteries, and Sesame Street products.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Retail Airlines Apparel 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Discovery-driven planning offers a lower-risk way to move a product forward in the face of “what is unknown, uncertain, and not yet obvious to the competition” so that firms can “learn as much as possible as cheaply as possible” while pursuing new ventures. “One out of every six garments sold in the U.S.

Benchmarking 108

Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 108

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others. Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does.

Management 70

Management Apparel Industry Company 70

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.

Chemicals 71

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 71

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Product: mechanical vs. interactive.

Automotive 71

Automotive Sales Software Apparel 71

Kates Kesler

JANUARY 25, 2013

Organizational simplicity is great when the business is simple – when there are only a few products, serving a few markets (in one or two countries). But in a complex, multi-divisional company, managing brands across several products and geographies things get more complicated. Leaders who can make conflict productive.

Apparel 56

Apparel Talent Report Productivity 56

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.

Apparel 50

Apparel Metrics Retail System 50

Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

Listing it on the company’s Facebook and Twitter profiles and right on the product package is a good place to start. When crafting your next campaign, ask yourself, “When my customers buy my product, what other need do they have? They should be able to receive, manage, and respond to users. Provide a service.

Real Estate 70

Real Estate Apparel Video Small Business 70

The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

But it’s more common to hear things like, “I work with large companies who want to increase productivity.” A Focused marketing strategy is more like a putting on a theatrical production. You can’t just put together something haphazardly and hope you get the equivalent of a professional Shakespearian production.

Marketing 110

Marketing Industry Strategy Strategy 110

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

In the apparel industry, the benchmark for inventory accuracy is somewhere between 60% and 70%. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level. This would allow it to uniquely identify every product, even distinguishing fashion items by size and color, as well as proving information on its location.

Tools 70

Tools Construction System Retail 70

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Household Products. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology. Cloud Computing. Hardware & Software. Food & Beverage. Commercial Oil. Renewable Energy. Telecommunications. Cable Companies. Device Providers. Media & Entertainment. Healthcare. Accounting. Consulting.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 70

Telecommunications Biotechnology Survey Healthcare 70

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 21, 2021

The ruling was against the former board members of the Jones Group, an ownership group of apparel brands including Gloria Vanderbilt, Anne Klein and Nine West. It’s probably the one who expects, and is warranted, a higher salary because they’ll have higher productivity. Employee to hire isn’t the one who will work for less.

Apparel 40

Apparel Groups Culture Report 40

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

Talent 73

Talent McKinsey Apparel Company 73

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Sara Campbell, a talented dress designer, sold the majority of her apparel as a private label supplier to national chains. They needed to act immediately to counter the triple threat of plunging sales, commitment to production capacity they didn’t need, and very limited liquidity.

Case Interview 70

Case Interview Real Estate Apparel Financial 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Fandom begins when customers find others who share the same interests and engagement with the product or brand. ” Read More from Microsoft. This isn’t always easy.

Sports 70

Sports Industry Data Media 70

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

To take an example of a corporate strategy role at an apparel company, you might be expected to know what kind of product categories they have, geographies they operate in, and recent trends in the industry.

Case Interview 78

Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78