WE CRAFT THE TOOLS AND CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TO THRIVE
Our global community cannot flourish without a shared vision of what’s possible, and processes that are coordinated, efficient and inclusive. At Points of Light, we’re committed to providing the tools, insights and connections needed to ensure the social sector continues to grow and innovate in this rapidly changing world.
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Narrow Your Focus to Prevent Overanalysis
What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. Says Morgan Fraud, the author of The Thinking Corporation, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes how do you successfully generate, capture, process and implement ideas?”
14 December 2015 -
Stick with Your Concept but Do Your Homework
With hundreds of medications in the market, Pharm Ltd. needed a proper method to predict and manage their inventory. Using a mean absolute percentage analysis (MAPE), the teams defined appropriate levels for raw materials and finished products by mapping.
25 December 2015 -
Three Social Media Hacks for the Busy Entrepreneur
The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.
25 December 2015 -
Harvest great ideas from your company’s best assets
In particular, the initial state of the company’s sales and operations planning capabilities limited their ability to account for demand variability or raw material lead times in production and distribution. Improve sales and operations and production planning.
25 December 2015