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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

The truth is that great companies are those which can thrive and prosper in the absence of sophistication. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. Some of it vanished when companies failed during those recessions. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States.

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Midsized Companies Can’t Afford Operational Glitches

Harvard Business Review

Many midsized companies dream of joining the Fortune 500 someday or of becoming the next General Electric, Microsoft, or Amazon. This lack of adaptability is not a problem in most small companies. This lack of adaptability is not a problem in most small companies. Take Instagram, the San Francisco-based social media company.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. of the time.

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Be Your Own Talent Scout

Harvard Business Review

Then I went to work for Nabisco following the Barbarians at the Gate leveraged buyout fiasco, and had to help rebuild the company. Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T., We have built other capabilities within our company to do our own talent scouting, as well.).

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”