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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

Case Studies of Leading Companies – Patagonia, Nike, Walmart Several companies are at the forefront of sustainable supply chain management, setting benchmarks for others to follow. Nike’s sustainability strategy includes using environmentally preferred materials, reducing waste in manufacturing, and implementing renewable energy solutions.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes. So where does it all go wrong?

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

After experimenting with a number of potential behavioral metrics, we settled on using one that approximates average weekly working hours as our primary measure. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. more likely to use data to benchmark customers and advise them on how to realize greater value.

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Friday Fusion: July 10, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Your skills remind of me Matt Olpinski, a freelancer/consultant featured in my article on the best consultant websites : Here’s what Matt had to say about his freelancing website: The main reason why I have the website is because I don’t want to waste time, money, and energy on chasing down new clients. Instead, I want them to come to me.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

Cable companies enviously and despairingly benchmark Netflix and Amazon to learn how they quasi-autonomously cultivate subscribers and binge viewers. Management focused attention and effort on more quickly identifying and “exceptions handling” the edge cases that took the most time and energy to resolve.

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Collect Your Employees’ Data Without Invading Their Privacy

Harvard Business

This includes having a tangible plan for what data is being sought, what changes will be made based on the findings, how the results of these changes will be measured, and the return on investment that justifies the time and energy put into the project.

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