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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

Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc.

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How Retail Can Thrive in a World Without Stores

Harvard Business Review

As more companies struggle to find their niche with the modern consumer, they’re turning to new technologies to recreate this sensory experience. 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.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). The integrated business model will be difficult for competitors to copy, but Medtronic knows it has to keep pushing.

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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.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Here's my take on the 10 big stories in sustainability and green business this year: The usual sustainability drivers got stronger. 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 ). The greening of the supply chain.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.