N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

In the final analysis, it's not the tools I really have an issue with, but with some of those who use them and the manner in which they are used. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Keep writing! Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If you suffer from analysis paralysis, procrastination, timidity, a lack of courage or confidence, being indecisive, or being in over your head, there is trouble looming. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. What say you?

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CO2

JULY 2, 2010

Each office works rather independently and all purchasing is centralized for cost savings. Additionally, they found that after instituting this daily checklist that the managers provided more detail analysis of other business issues that were not on the checklist. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology hypothesizes that people follow because the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs of going it alone or fighting to become the leader of a group. Followers who were happy with the costs and benefits of membership stayed with the group; those who were not either left to join other groups or battled for the top spots.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis. If so, again don't get fall into analysis paralysis. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. I may have some personal issues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As much as some people won’t want to hear this, “ help &# is not a dirty word. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

That thesis is certainly supported by Henry Blodget's pithy and provocative take on Americans' losing 40% of their net worth between 2007 and 2010. If you were a Bain consultant, you’d call for a repertoire analysis. Right now," concludes Blodget, "America just isn't working for the middle class.". A classic case of disruption?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? What is the lost opportunity cost associated with customer churn? Replacement Costs : Remember the cost of acquisition number you just calculated above?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies. In 2009, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Seeing the potential to improve health with simple primary-care strategies, some of the biggest incumbent players are inviting new entrants focused on empowering consumers into their highly regulated ecosystems, bringing down costs. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In the first year, ReCon helped Pepsi suppliers dramatically reduce consumption and save $2 million in utilities costs. Lifecycle analysis isn't new, of course. Increasingly they are looking at the ecosystems in which they are embedded and making operations and strategy changes that ripple across them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

having sacrificed customer intimacy for increased operational excellence gains through widespread cost cutting, are well documented. Organizations worry about fine-tuning their operations to handle the typical situations. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Is the balance right in your organization?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social media and community collaboration bring many benefits, including brand-building, customer loyalty and retention, cost reductions, improved productivity, and revenue growth. Oh, and here’s a bonus: by doing this, you’ll reduce support costs since community members can help each other!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S. What ACOs need are specialists to bring them back to life.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The last official report on the April 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig was issued on September 16th. It does not address issues of leadership, management and accountability above the level of immediate events on the rig, and above lower level operational managers. We may never know.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age. Talent, purpose, culture and creating meaning is the peopley work mostly viewed by the performance folks as "cost centers," or departments that exist only to manage legal risk. There's plenty of empirical data to support this strategic direction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

These “dynamic reallocators” produced a median total return to their shareholders of 10 percent per year between 1990 and 2010. Good analysis in the hands of smart managers does not automatically yield great strategy. The corporate minority that actively reallocate their resources do much better financially than those that don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

These may be difficult to discover because the picture may be blurry or the analysis may be messy. I don’t mean just to pick on JP Morgan—although its legal troubles have been the ones dominating headlines lately. But addressing them is essential if we actually want to change behavior.

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Banking Risk Management Constraint Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Given the rising cost of urban land, real estate markets cannot satisfy this need on their own. This needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. The future model for MOC must strive to achieve the aims of better physician competence, better system competence, and lower cost over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

It is in the first 15 minutes of a medical encounter—which, studies show, is the average amount of time that patients meet with their primary care physician—that up to half of all medical costs are set in motion. Medical technology is often perceived as a driver of health care costs, and there is certainly some truth to that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 And the after-tax cost of debt for many large companies is close to the rate of inflation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve. Given capacity and costs for each channel, which customers should receive which offers through which channels? She holds an MS in Management Sciences from the University of Maryland.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans. (It

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

manufacturing nearly tripled between 2005 and 2010, from 11% to 30% of plants. Furthermore, the costs of moving to the DDD frontier are not trivial, and may outweigh the benefits – particularly if the scale of operations is just too small. We find that the use of DDD in U.S. However, adoption has been uneven.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Outsiders, by contrast, can take years to acquire the necessary familiarity with a company’s structure and operations. In my analysis of 1,800 successions, for instance, I found that company performance was significantly better when insiders succeeded to the job of CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

This latest change was driven by Lewis DVorkin, an experienced veteran of both the traditional news industry and digital media, who joined Forbes as its Chief Product Officer (a newly created position) in 2010. In 2011 DVorkin rolled out a " New Newsroom " on a blog-based platform (WordPress) and a new organization.

Business Model 15

Business Model Process Innovation Media 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. “Analysis Paralysis&# leads to missed opportunities and failed initiatives. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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