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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? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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!

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. Of course, such plans will have to adapt to actual events, but without a robust plan, "seat of the pants" crisis management won't work.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control.

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What See-Through Pants Can Reveal About a Company's Weaknesses

Harvard Business Review

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. The Psychiatric Drug Crisis The New Yorker. Crisis management'

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation. Everyone knows the story.