N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

And what are your strategic goals? 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. link] Todd Hockenberry Best practices is a follower strategy.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

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. In February, Wal-Mart said it would eliminate 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from its supply chain. Big goals were back.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Extreme weather brings unpredictable dangers for physical assets or massive disruptions to supply chains (like auto and hard drive companies found out with floods in Thailand in 2011). You can’t re-arrange supply chains to avoid droughts or storm risk quickly, or flood-protect or move your facilities on the fly.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Data had to be labeled, and goals set. in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. Natural languages. When IBM Watson beat former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the game show Jeopardy!

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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. So the goal should not be greater efficiency, but rather efficiency where it makes sense. Everyone knows the story.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

These companies can help change the conversation — they have significant clout and reach, not just in Washington, but also through their extensive employee networks (millions of people), supply chains (hundreds of billions of purchasing), and marketing and social media machines (millions of tweeters).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. The goal of value-based care is to fix that. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. It will eventually affect every patient across the United States. Others must, too. We all know that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. In 2011, he commissioned a report that called for an “innovation policy” rather than an “industrial policy.” The Era of Big Science. Often, that information is considered proprietary.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

While marketing budgets have been steadily rising as a percentage of firm budgets since 2011, many CMOs still lack real authority over decisions that most affect the customer, since most are delivered through touch points not owned by marketing. This will probably happen if you don’t do that.’ That was very helpful.”.

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