N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

For Jeco Plastic Products, 2011 was a landmark year. The partnership — later named the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium , or NDEMC — would revolutionize how America's manufacturing supply chain does business. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Tools Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. The drive for dematerialization will change job descriptions in R&D, product development, and procurement at the very least. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. As part of its effort to use supply-chain methods to obtain the highest quality care for its employees, Intel promptly added procurement specialists to its collaborative. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

To find these people, you have to develop a long-term, very consistent strategy. general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. Here are some things that have worked very well for me: Network, network, network.

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Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. With events like those that have changed the power dynamics throughout the Arab world, or the tsunami in Japan that disrupted many global supply chains, it's easy to think that the world is becoming ever more connected and interdependent.

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Munich Re reports that natural disasters in 2011 caused insurance companies to substantially spend down cash reserves, with payouts exceeding premiums in the US by 16%. Droughts and floods also enter the risk picture for any company dependent on an agricultural supply chain.

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Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. As a result, the risk-reward ratios that we take for granted, such tight global supply chains, may no longer make sense. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity.".

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. 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. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Let’s consider first the example of Blink Booking , which Rebeca Minguela started in 2011 after graduating from HBS. What do I mean by nondigital components?

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Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. We know that the economy fell on its face at $147 per barrel in 2008, and brought growth to a halt in 2011 at $120.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. The Era of Big Science. Killing Ideas Faster. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. After waiting patiently, Costco became a customer, and by 2011, Dave’s sales rocketed to $50 million. Here’s what happened at a midsized company that was founded and led by a salesman. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The greening of the supply chain. Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. But please.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Here's an example to clarify how to read the table: Suppose a foreign subsidiary in Egypt sees all of its 2011 profits eliminated by the current political turmoil. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

As globalization has created longer and increasingly complex food supply chains, there has been a concomitant surge in demand for locally-sourced food. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. Some companies have ridden this wave.

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Human resources development. Running the business.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. Now for the company-level stories: Supply chain pressure continues to rise (a.k.a., Even coming out of the recession, this was a big year for green supply chain announcements.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

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 authors also say Lululemon should probably pay more attention to its supply chain.

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Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Everyone knows the story. earthquake off Japan's east coast triggered a massive tsunami and led to a cascading series of problems.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. percent in 1960.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Few business leaders have developed this attention to the front line as effectively as M.S. Oberoi, the founder of the Oberoi Group, a chain of luxury hotels in India. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 I want my supply chain team fighting to rationalize, to look for scale benefits.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The audit committee of the board would not sign off on behalf of the deals, which just kept happening and developing secret lives of their own. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. Before AlphaGo played against a human, Google researchers had been developing it to play video games — Space Invaders , Breakout , Pong , and others. Natural languages. Deep learning.

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Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8