One of the challenges that faces a growing business is expanding product offerings by producing new product lines, expanding existing lines or selling products in new markets. Product expansion ...

Reducing costs and improving sales is the goal of every business. Business operations constitute many processes, including material acquisition, manufacturing costs and product delivery. Business ...

Operation managers play a key role in the structure of a business. Backend office services such as operation managers are just as vital in your business as front-facing professionals such as marketing ...

After more than a decade of writing articles on strategic operational issues for strategy+business, I realized that this column, despite its name, has never defined the essence of an operations ...

The preponderance of small, and some mid-size manufacturers soldier on without an operations strategy. They live by “get order, fill order,” and discussions, usually begun at the last minute, of ...

Creating a strategy is hard work. It requires reliable data, keen insights, a touch of innovation, and a lot of difficult decision-making. When executed effectively, it can create clarity and focus ...

The good news is most companies are involved in improvement initiatives and programs. The bad news is the track record for sustainable and meaningful results is spotty! What tools and methods are ...

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited showed signs of improvement despite revenue declines in oncology and neurosciences, thanks to gains in gastrointestinal and inflammation sectors and strategic ...

Kellogg’s award-winning faculty has created an expansive suite of corporate business strategy programs for senior leaders charged with creating competitive advantage and delivering results. Faculty ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Not long ago, few B2B companies had a marketing operations function. Today, this function is becoming an important facet of the marketing organization. The marketing operations function enables the ...