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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. What say you?

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Open India: Considerations for Retailers

Harvard Business Review

Here are some considerations for businesses contemplating a Go-to-India strategy: Market Selection. How do you build trust and verify the integrity of the market participants? How will your business impact the mom-and-pop kirana stores? What can you learn from other emerging markets (Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, etc.)?

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We're All E-Commerce Companies Now

Harvard Business Review

Online sales of everyday items — soap, orange juice, toothpaste — more than doubled between 2006 and 2010, and are expected to double again by 2014. It was a simple business model distinction — either you sold online, or you sold in store. The day of e-commerce is finally here.

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business Review

What’s emerging is what I call the “StoreHouse” — a hybrid model that merges the physical benefits of a real-world store with the convenience of home. To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising.

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How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

Harvard Business Review

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit. Growing Digital Business.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.