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Seven weeks working ‘pro bono’ with a charity
- January 22, 2016
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Business plans, Uncategorized
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Growth through innovation/creativity. Rather than be constrained by ideas for new products, services and new markets coming from just a few people, a Thinking Corporation can tap into the employees.
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Retail banks wake up to digital lending this year
- January 22, 2016
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Franchising, Uncategorized
The effort vastly improved the company’s planning and execution functions, created and implemented a new stock policy that accounted for specific SKUs and key variables, streamlined the order preparation process and reduced distribution transport times.
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A digital prescription for the pharma industry
- January 22, 2016
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Business plans, Uncategorized
Supported by a robust sales force and tight cost controls, Pharm Ltd. experienced sustained double-digit growth over a number of years, only to find that their supply chain struggled to keep pace. In particular, the initial state of the company’s sales.
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Economics As If People Mattered
- January 8, 2016
- Posted by: Dr. Crystal J. Davis
- Category: Servant Leadership
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The Year of Servant Leadership in Review
- December 31, 2015
- Posted by: Dr. Crystal J. Davis
- Category: Servant Leadership
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Harvest great ideas from your company’s best assets
- December 25, 2015
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Competitive research, Uncategorized
In particular, the initial state of the company’s sales and operations planning capabilities limited their ability to account for demand variability or raw material lead times in production and distribution. Improve sales and operations and production planning.
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Three Social Media Hacks for the Busy Entrepreneur
- December 25, 2015
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Innovation, Uncategorized
The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.
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Stick with Your Concept but Do Your Homework
- December 25, 2015
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Economics, Uncategorized
With hundreds of medications in the market, Pharm Ltd. needed a proper method to predict and manage their inventory. Using a mean absolute percentage analysis (MAPE), the teams defined appropriate levels for raw materials and finished products by mapping.
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Narrow Your Focus to Prevent Overanalysis
- December 14, 2015
- Posted by: CRYSTAL DAVIS
- Category: Franchising, Uncategorized
What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. Says Morgan Fraud, the author of The Thinking Corporation, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes how do you successfully generate, capture, process and implement ideas?”
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The Kindness Revolution
- December 4, 2015
- Posted by: Dr. Crystal J. Davis
- Category: Servant Leadership