Jun 27, 2022 Consumers are moving on from gendered retail; will retailers follow? By Filip Nemeth David Bassuk Joel Bines Retail is seeing a crisis of loyalty. Market share is tougher than ever to gain, and it’s getting harder to make meaningful connections...
Jun 27, 2022 Marc Benioff, the model of a modern transformative leader By Ted Bililies “Marc has been a towering exemplar of what it means to be an innovative and forward-thinking leader.” So said Ken Frazier, the former CEO...
Jun 27, 2022 Turbulent markets coupled with ESG pose interesting questions for PE as an economic downturn approaches By Mark Veldon The last couple of years have been somewhat turbulent for PE funds. 2020 threw a huge pandemic-shaped spanner in the works of deal...
Jun 24, 2022 If you're going to "do ESG"...mean it. By Josh Tecchio I don't think I'd be saying anything revolutionary in stating that there are components of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)...
Jun 23, 2022 The business case for building a Virtual Power Plant - and 5 IT watchouts if you do… By Les Viszlai I wrote in my previous article about the Energy Cloud and the benefits offered by Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Virtual Power...
Jun 23, 2022 Disruption is par for the course and no one is safe By Jeff Barta For many, golf is fascinating viewing, for others not so much. But right now the business of golf makes for particularly compelling...
Jun 23, 2022 Automation Part 2: One size doesn't fit all By Derek Knueve Chandan Singh We recently argued that automation’s move from the experimental phase to necessity phase has accelerated amid the pandemic, supply chain...
Jun 23, 2022 Could another supply chain crisis be on the horizon? A potential West Coast port labor strike would create a tumultuous 2022 holiday period By Brian Nemeth Erik Mattson James Roe Andrew Kerr +1 more... Show less Following the trend of continual disruption in the supply chain, the looming West Coast port labor-contract negotiation is set to take...
Jun 23, 2022 JFTC established its formal team of economists and published the long-waited best practices of economic analysis and data submission By Keita Fukunaga In my previous blog, I emphasized that Japan's antitrust watchdog, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), has recently begun to utilize...
Jun 22, 2022 Don't reinvent the wheel when managing sustainability-related risks By Cliff Lam The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) recently published its first two proposed standards setting out disclosure...
Jun 22, 2022 Making time for Mentoring By Adam Searles It’s Monday morning, time to reset my to-do list and goals. At first glance, this will be another busy week filled with opportunities to...
Jun 22, 2022 Energy costs are soaring – what can telcos do about it? By Sai Tunuguntla There cannot be a more opportune time than now for telcos to drive efficiencies in energy usage and to seek alternative energy sources. ...
Jun 22, 2022 From deal to integration: Turning theses into objectives By Connor Lott Mark Veldon M&A isn't easy, even if the deal parameters and synergy hypotheses appear superb. Most of us are familiar with the research from Harvard...
Jun 22, 2022 How can consumer products companies solve the e-commerce dilemma? By Emily Halperin Thomas Kohler Serving customers through e-commerce channels isn’t optional any longer for consumer products (CP) companies. The pandemic has...
Jun 21, 2022 Cobots use Natural Language to Deliver Business Value By Jeremy Lehman Amelia Green Twenty-five years ago, IBM’s Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated chess Grand Master Gary Kasparov. Deep Blue became the...
Jun 21, 2022 Net zero: Syncing ambition with outcomes across the CPG value chain By Randy Burt Anna Del Mar Jonathan Greenway Emily Halperin Andy Searle +2 more... Show less The global food system is a massive and intricate network that supports lives and livelihoods everywhere in the world. But its complexity...