N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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.

Blog 295

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

More and more, companies are building long-term commitments to corporate social responsibility. Additionally, companies with highest levels of employee engagement saw increases in their bottom line: On average they improved 19.2% in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson).

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

That story focuses on how the World Economic Forum, and some specific companies like Coca-Cola and Nike, are taking the issue seriously. Part of the disconnect stems from what’s said by company leaders versus what a broad selection of managers think. Additionally, only 11% ranked climate change as a very significant issue.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Set your company up for success. The result is a slide into mediocrity.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Cash outlays are always risks. by Hank Moore. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 53

Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Companies have become much more likely to dismiss their chief executive officers over the last several years because of a scandal or improper conduct by the CEO or other employees — including fraud, bribery, insider trading, inflated resumes, and sexual indiscretions. From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9%

Ethics 8

Ethics CEO Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Then I went to work for Nabisco following the Barbarians at the Gate leveraged buyout fiasco, and had to help rebuild the company. general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. (Our So I began a practice I've kept up to this day.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

"Off the charts" is both figuratively and literally accurate: the data for the last 100 years shows a tight regression of temperature and water availability in Texas.except for the 2011 drought, which is far off the line (three degrees hotter with an inch less rainfall than any previous year). billion in agricultural production alone.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. Around the same time, the French beauty company, L’Oréal, said it would stop selling its flagship brand, Garnier, in the country. And Western Internet companies such as Yahoo!,

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Unlike at commercial companies, there was no senior leader who could mandate changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

government nor Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government had response plans which addressed the sequence of events that, though remote, were arguably foreseeable in environments where dangerous technology was located and which, in particular, addressed the additional issues outlined below. Yet, neither BP and the U.S.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. She also took the unusual step of installing three CMOs who could help provide detailed insights into three of the main business groups of the company. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential. ” The company has organized its own Research Frontiers Institute along similar lines.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8