Sep 20, 2023 When Consumer Products Companies Become Tech Companies By Robert DeNardo John Breuninger Albert Sang James Stevens Bhavik Mistry +2 more... Show less Tech disruption has created an opportunity and a need to innovate or be left behind. You may now find that the thermometer in your...
Sep 20, 2023 Lessons from the factory floor part 2: The music has stopped on salaried churn. Now what? By Parmesh Bhaskaran Steven Hilgendorf Allen Merriman Felix Pflaum Stephen Smith Chandan Singh +3 more... Show less While the challenges around the hourly manufacturing workforce get most of the ink (particularly in light of the UAW strike), salaried...
Sep 20, 2023 Retail Viewpoint: How retailers should prepare for a challenging holiday season By Meghan Hayward Asher von Stein Economic pressures are forcing consumers to make difficult decisions and budget carefully. As fall arrives, retailers preparing for the...
Sep 18, 2023 Don’t miss out: Prioritize selling conversations with your fresh food suppliers By Adam Goodliss Matthew Hamory With traditional grocery’s share of the fresh food dollar on the decline, communication about produce, protein and prepared foods is more...
Sep 15, 2023 Navigating the e-commerce dilemma: Balancing convenience and cost in home delivery operations By Marc Iampieri Chris Considine Felix Pflaum Andrew Talerico Robbie Ehlers +2 more... Show less The convenience of e-commerce and near-instant gratification for shoppers to get same-day or next-day deliveries for their purchases...
Sep 14, 2023 Winning in Fiberland: A Strategic Approach to M&A By Joey Cofrancesco Andrej Danis Conor McShane For the past 40 years—at least—the telecom industry has operated in a state of constant change—from the breakup of Bell in the 1980s to...
Sep 14, 2023 Can you Develop a Culture of Compliance? By Clark Perry Robert Coffey Sean Dowd Rich Kando +1 more... Show less The Department of Justice and most global regulators encourage companies to invest in developing a “culture of compliance,” but should...
Sep 14, 2023 How Off-the-Shelf Tech Can Make Factories More Profitable By Abhinav Agrawal Rob Sterner Too often, smaller companies are intimidated by the high costs, complexity, and long installation times that high-end smart factory...
Sep 13, 2023 TSA: Collaborate for a win-win By Steve Aschkenase Dan Angarita How collaboration in developing and executing transition services agreements enables successful carveouts Executing attractive carveouts...
Sep 13, 2023 Shareholder value creation in Japanese pharmaceuticals By Joji Hattori Ben Salcetti Sho Ogawa Tetsuya Kimura +1 more... Show less Many Japanese pharmaceutical companies have been languishing under low growth and profitability amid a ”triple whammy” business...
Sep 12, 2023 Make the most of your SIOP process by developing a single source of truth to align stakeholders By Ryan Nelis Alejandro Souza Bosch Barb Schultze Jim Snyder Miguel Wong Jonathan Chong +3 more... Show less The pandemic appears to be behind us, but new supply chain challenges are constantly emerging. Persistent global trade disruptions,...
Sep 05, 2023 Wrong person, wrong time: Why leaders and succession plans fail By Ted Bililies To navigate multiple and simultaneous disruptions, businesses need a CEO with vision. This enables them to attract and retain A-player...
Sep 05, 2023 CSRD reporting: A reality check for European firms By Veit Buetterlin Oliver Pestalozzi Martin Born Volker Popp +1 more... Show less Around 50,000 global companies will be subject to CSRD reporting … few are actually ready For some firms, ESG reporting is still a "nice...
Aug 31, 2023 Supply chain scale versus complexity: A strategic framework for 4PL relationships By Joe Cubellis Luiz Gosling Vikas Grover Marc Iampieri Steve Scales +2 more... Show less In an era marked by the intricate web of global supply chains, organizations have leveraged the fourth-party logistics (4PL) operating...
Aug 30, 2023 The great destocking: analyzing the chemical industry’s 300-day challenge By Vance Scott Matt McCauley Robert Sullivan Ashish Chitalia Ananta Medury +2 more... Show less Chemical industry inventory levels soared to record highs over the past quarter, raising the urgent need for a “great destocking.”...
Aug 30, 2023 Consumer Products Corner – Financial Fitness: Revenue and margins both shrink amid declining consumer purchasing power By Randy Burt Brett Meyer Ben Roers Median revenue growth over the last four quarters consistently decreased across all CP sectors, a reversal from the Q1 view. Consumers...