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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

For example, Adidas has launched initiatives to produce shoes from ocean plastic waste , turning a pollutant into a valuable consumer product. Companies are implementing various strategies to minimize waste production, from the design phase, lean manufacturing techniques, to end-of-life management.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? Given these studies tying air quality to health, we wanted to see whether improved ventilation affects cognitive function, an indicator of worker productivity. Chances are it’s not often.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business

They can become saddled with expensive start-up partnerships, impenetrable black-box systems, cumbersome cloud computational clusters, and open-source toolkits without programmers to write code for them. For example, online retailers can adjust product prices daily because they have automated the collection of competitors’ prices.

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Pros and Cons of OKRs

Johanna Rothman

Let's set the objective: “Establish New Product X as the premier product in its category.” . Now, you create 3-5 Key Results: Create and publish benchmarks to prove Product X leads the category in the next quarter. Show Product X at a tradeshow in the next quarter. Show Product X at a tradeshow in the next quarter.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

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Pettis on Strains in China's Banking System; Avoiding the Fall

MishTalk

Next year will be a very important year for China because possible strains in the banking system and the intensity with which the reformers present their case will give us a better sense both of how much debt capacity the country retains and of how well positioned Xi Jinping and his allies are to implement the needed reforms.

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