Actionable Insight: Engaging Consumers and Suppliers

Sustainable practices: engaging consumers and suppliers -- by Grace Segran, London -- Coca-Cola is one firm that knows very well that its environmental and economic impact extends well beyond its factory gates. This starts with the ingredients it needs for its products to the natural resources required to make the packaging, "extending all the way to the people who buy and consume our drinks and handle the packaging," says CCE Europe's Communications Director, Shanna Wendt who spoke to INSEAD Knowledge on the sidelines of a supply chain conference here recently. Shanna Wend With companies increasingly being held accountable for the environmental and social practices of their supply chain, how then do they go about engaging consumers and suppliers in their supply chain?

Tuning into their Brain - Employee behaviour for enhanced performance

Organizations have some form of program designed to nurture high-potential employees. However a recent study by the Corporate Executive Board revealed that 40% of "high-potential" job moves  produce disappointing results. Disengagement of employees also is remarkable: One in three emerging stars reported feeling disengaged from his or her company.  Even more striking, 12% of all the high potentials in the study said they were actively searching for a new job.  Why do companies have so much difficulty in their succession planning?