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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. In 2006, Pfizer directly redeemed the value built by PCH by selling the business to Johnson & Johnson for an unprecedented US$16.6

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Innovation Tech industry Technology' I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. In late 2006, Nike broke off relations with its existing supplier in Sialkot amid concerns over labor issues. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule.

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Why Congress Needs to Pass the Innovation Act This Time

Harvard Business Review

When he managed to beat a reform-minded opponent by just 243 votes (four of which cast by ghost-voters purporting to live at the address of Bauler`s own tavern) he made a declaration that still lives today: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” A 2006 U.S. The scourge of NPEs will be deterred, but hardly stopped.