N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. By instituting environmental impact reductions, we gained important cost efficiencies. We need both.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth. This was crazy, we initially thought. The more we probed the more obvious it became that the "excess" diversification was rational when viewed at the right level.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. And Big Business did not even make those bets.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12