The Nike child labor controversy surfaced in a 1996 Life magazine story and consumer outrage prompted big changes in the way Nike manages its global supply chain and all this took some time. In contrast, the New York Times story on labor practices at the Chinese supplier factories of Apple of just two weeks agoContinue reading “Apple: when US customers demand better treatment of Chinese workers in the global supply chain”
Category Archives: HR
What’s your internal organization got to do with marketing and supply chain?
What's your internal organization got to do with marketing and supply chain? Well everything…. but first some nostalgia. This is the 500th post of this blog and happily coincides with the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens who explored perennial and timeless issues of the human condition. So too with organizations whose challenges continue despite technologyContinue reading “What’s your internal organization got to do with marketing and supply chain?”
Digital marketing logjam between organization,IT,Marketing and Ad-Agency
Digital marketing has two words and the first is digital whose legacy meaning is IT or information technology. The legacy meaning of marketing in digital marketing is about being a "peoples person", being "creative" and as this blog mentioned in a previous post – generally in favor of an open bar in any celebration!The ITContinue reading “Digital marketing logjam between organization,IT,Marketing and Ad-Agency”
As the economy turns around in 2012: re-training opportunities in the healthcare value chain
As 2011 winds down there is positive news in the quarterly jobless numbers,in real estate and the stock market. 2012 should be better than the last four years of the recession. OK it may not be boom time but there does appear to be the right signals for at least modestly better economic times aheadContinue reading “As the economy turns around in 2012: re-training opportunities in the healthcare value chain”
What an 80 year old workforce means for organizations and innovation opportunities
Working till you are 80 years old is not a happy thought, particularly if you want to retire at 65 or 67. But 25% Americans think that they might have no other alternative. From an older worker's point of view not being able to retire is hard as is dealing with the stereotype of beingContinue reading “What an 80 year old workforce means for organizations and innovation opportunities”
Without execution leadership is meaningless
Peter Drucker is credited with having said: Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. The emphasis on doing is from this blog post because for reasons unknown the world of organizations (whether for-profit,non-profit or government) seem to worship "leadership" and treat execution as mundane and "tactical." Somehow beneath the dignity ofContinue reading “Without execution leadership is meaningless”
Occupy Wall Street goes global-tipping point for Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)
The global spread of the occupy Wall Street movement is a tipping point for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) . Just check out the CBS News Video report from yesterday that includes Pete from NYU who is planning to drop out of his Finance program to help manage the funds of the movement. "Economic justice" isContinue reading “Occupy Wall Street goes global-tipping point for Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)”
Feedback is really important in the ICT Model of input-process-output
Given the interest of blog readers on the ICT model based on a past post, it’s important to emphasize the value of feedback to the inputs and process part of the ICT model. To recall the ICT (or Information Communication Technology) model is depicted as input—> process—> output with a feedback loop to input from the quality of the output as depicted in the ICT diagram above. The feedback is really important.
The “stability predictability” challenge : why the Fed’s action might help jobs
The stunning decline of the stock market on Monday after the S&P downgrade left one wondering as did the waiting with bated breath of the stock market to the Fed announcement. Coming out and saying that interest rates will not change till 2013 does a lot to help both the market and organizations feel less Continue reading “The “stability predictability” challenge : why the Fed’s action might help jobs”
Leaders must be open to input: deference defeats innovation in organizations
As Hoftede would tell you, certain countries have huge power distance. For example, in all the orange shaded countries you don't argue with the boss , the boss is always right and you show deference. It was that in the US you could speak up to the boss but that has changed since the economyContinue reading “Leaders must be open to input: deference defeats innovation in organizations”