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What is workplace learning and how is it changing learning strategy? What do organisations need to do to build a coherent and actionable workplace learning strategy?
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This document discusses shifts occurring in the learning technology landscape. It notes a movement from talent silos to a more hybrid model and from purchasing software to accessing learning technologies as a service. There is a renaissance of learning portals taking place with more interactive features. Next generation learning management systems (LMS) are becoming more transparent and personalized to learners. Social learning is growing in popularity but remains largely tactical. SharePoint is widely used but lacks strategic focus. Open source options like Moodle are raising awareness but require clarity around roles, costs and support models. The document advocates designing learning ecosystems that balance work-based, collaborative and formal learning to drive business value now and in the future.
What is workplace learning and how is it changing learning strategy? What do organisations need to do to build a coherent and actionable workplace learning strategy?
This document provides an overview of strategic alignment between business and talent strategies. It discusses how the modern business environment presents unique challenges related to globalization, technology, demographics, and more. To compete in this complex environment, companies need sound business strategies as well as talent strategies to execute those business strategies. The document argues that people are one of the most important ways for a company to unlock its strategy, so managing talent is critical to achieving business goals. It emphasizes that close alignment between business and talent strategies helps ensure realization of the business strategy and operations excellence required for success. The rest of the document outlines key questions and considerations for aligning business and talent strategies.
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1. Develop a feasible plan
2. Match demand with supply
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4. Become demand-driven
5. Orchestrate through market-driven value networks
It discusses how the goal and technology needs change at each stage. Most companies are not clear on their S&OP goal or supply chain strategy, undermining their success. Moving to later stages requires redefining data models and inputs to enable more advanced modeling and optimization of demand, supply, inventory, and financial trade-offs. Building an effective S&OP process faces barriers including executive
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Highlights
• A project-based approach has failed. Our gains are much lower than we believed in inventory management and a long-term perspective is needed to drive permanent and sustainable improvements.
• The hi-tech industry is the only of the six industries profiled to drive sustained gains across most metrics considered during the time period.
• The definition of supply chain excellence is still evolving as companies move through different maturity stages. Industrial and pharmaceutical companies are mainly stuck at low levels of maturity and could benefit greatly from applying lessons learned in other industries to their own supply chains.
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At one time, the physical store defined the retailer. It was the brand. Today, this has changed. Now the store is a part of a cross-channel experience. It is a combination of goods and services. The impact of the change is different by retail sector, but it is pervasive.
While changes in other industries have happened incrementally through continuous improvement and process innovation, retail has been transformed by new business models. The pace is faster and the customer demands higher.
Redefining the role of the store is critical. It requires partnerships of both retailers and manufacturers. It is for this reason that we wrote this report.
The document discusses predictive analytics and its applications. It begins by defining predictive analytics as using data patterns to predict future outcomes. It then discusses how various industries like marketing, risk management, and operations are using predictive analytics for applications such as targeting customers, assessing risk, and optimizing processes. The document provides examples of how predictive models are used for response modeling, customer segmentation, loyalty/retention, and assessing customer profitability in marketing. It also discusses using predictive models for predicting defaults in risk applications.
1) The document discusses how Avelo, a UK financial software vendor, can leverage big data to provide additional value to its clients in the financial services sector.
2) It examines potential big data projects Avelo could implement related to performance management, data exploration, social analytics, and decision science.
3) It also discusses how Avelo has begun constructing a big data capability by developing a common enterprise data model to unify its applications and data.
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Summary report of research on supply chain performance in the pandemic. During COVID-19, supply chains were significantly less agile. Innovative companies did better than laggards. When companies were mature in finite scheduling, sales and operations planning and Available to Promise (ATP), manufacturers were more agile and reponsive.
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Conventional systems of measurement for supply chain excellence are problematic. In this report, we share insights gained during interviews with 75 supply chain pioneers. Based on their feedback we created a new framework, that we define here as the Supply Chain Effective Frontier, for supply chain leaders to use to determine supply chain excellence. This methodology is based on publicly available financial balance sheet data grouped into four sets of supply chain ratios: growth, profitability, cycle, and complexity.
We believe that supply chain excellence is best defined as the alignment of the supply chain team to deliver results to meet and exceed the requirements of the business strategy. This requires a clear vision and cross-functional coordination and alignment over a multi-year road map. It needs to be holistic. A supply chain is a complex system with increasing business complexity. The analysis needs to facilitate a clear understanding of trade-offs embedded in day-to-day decision making. It is this clarity that we find missing in many teams that we work with, and it is for this reason we wrote this report.
Cycles of innovation are becoming shorter as modern data analytics tools enable faster disruption. Traditional approaches to resisting change or protecting existing business models are less effective in a digital economy where data and analytics allow for rapid innovation. For example, during a discussion with banking executives, each spoke about using big data to improve operations and differentiate themselves from competitors, but they failed to recognize how it could disrupt their entire industry or business models.
This document provides information about Spencer's Retail Limited, including its company profile and use of technology. It discusses Spencer's Retail's implementation of an SAP ERP system using Sun servers to support its rapid expansion to over 350 stores across India. The new IT infrastructure improved performance, ensured availability, and provided scalability to support further growth. Spencer's Retail was able to process transactions 5 times faster and estimated the system could support up to 1,000 stores. It also reduced space and power needs.
This document provides information about Spencer's Retail Limited, including its company profile and use of technology. It discusses Spencer's Retail's implementation of an SAP ERP system using Sun servers to support its rapid expansion to over 350 stores across India. The new IT infrastructure improved performance, ensured availability, and provided scalability to support further growth. Spencer's Retail was able to process transactions 5 times faster and estimated the system could support up to 1,000 stores. It also reduced space and power needs.
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The document discusses value chain analysis as a valuable tool for gaining a competitive advantage. It explains that value chain analysis is based on the economic principle of comparative advantage, where companies focus on areas where they can produce goods or services more efficiently than competitors. Conducting a value chain analysis involves identifying each step of the production process and finding ways to eliminate unnecessary steps or make improvements. This allows companies to deliver the most value to customers at the lowest possible cost, improving profits over the long run. The assistant provides a concise 3 sentence summary of the key points made in the document about using value chain analysis as a strategic tool.
Accenture is proposing several IT solutions to address Blackwater Petroleum's issues with pipeline monitoring, replacement parts procurement, and inventory management. The key recommendations include implementing a private cloud using Amazon Web Services to provide secure centralized access to data. SAS software would be used for predictive asset maintenance, data management, and procurement. GE's smart pig technology would monitor pipelines for defects and integrate with SAS. FieldOne field service management software would aid in scheduling inspection and repair crews. The solutions would be implemented in phases, starting with the private cloud, then SAS software, and finally testing at BPI locations.
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