As a new CEO in 2004, Simon Wardley was searching for a framework to inform his strategy decisions. The first part in this series introduced the five factors that matter in competition, identified by ...

A Value Chain is a set of activities that a company performs in order to deliver its product or service for the market. The concept was introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, ...

Process mapping is a powerful tool to help businesses understand, manage, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations. This 2-day workshop will focus on Value Stream Maps for ...

To some degree, we are all pretending. Executives pretend that they are always accountable and that they can hold others so merely by talking about it. Managers pretend the same thing. Individual ...

For decades, packaged seafood production was considered to be a quintessential scale business (pardon the pun). The seafood industry believed itself to be engaged in can making and canning, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In grocery retail, the rules have changed. Amid global economic uncertainty and rising ...