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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. And what are your strategic goals?

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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P&G Innovates on Razor-Thin Margins

Harvard Business Review

This is an excellent story of reverse innovation in action.but the story has only just begun. Recently, P&G has completely reversed the innovation approach at Gillette. Third, P&G didn't stop at an India-tailored product, but built an India-tailored business model. This blog is co-authored with John R.

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Open India: Considerations for Retailers

Harvard Business Review

How can we improve the businesses of our suppliers and local partners? Business Model Innovation. How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies?

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Why We Need Heretical, Holistic Green Thinking

Harvard Business Review

System" is the key word, and it was top of mind during a recent HBR event in Palo Alto, sponsored by Hitachi, where I was moderating a panel on sustainable supply chains. Pepsi has rolled it out at hundreds of sites, and now is sharing it with supply-chain partners. A tall order, maybe. What if oil cost $500 a barrel?" "Can

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business Review

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. When eyeglass maker Warby Parker launched in 2010, its founders had $2,500 seed funding and impressive business school pedigrees.

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