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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Well actually, no it’s not. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. The following cities are leading the economic revival in their recovery sectors: Washington , D.C

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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

Whether you’re the platoon commander of an Army Infantry Patrol, or the Director of Human Resources, you’re still a leader. Know where to apply your energies and you’ll be working faster and more efficiently. This lets employees understand each other’s role and promotes communication between departments.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Basically, trust produces efficiency.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. If they can get that value — or most of it — from contingency workers, outsourcing, automation, innovative processes or capital investment, why wouldn''t they?

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

It’s a solution we discovered during our research in India, and involves breakthrough innovations that drive down health care delivery costs so much that the margins from serving those who can pay is more than enough to cover the costs of those who cannot. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings.