N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles. To this day, Cook continues as one of the best when it comes to operational excellence. Neither bode well for the future. Fault Line #1: At the Top.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. Looking Forward to 2011. China, China, China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, Express Scripts and Anthem were partners in the medical supply chain. A merger in this context may aim to better coordinate the supply chain by reducing the element of competition from the supplier relationship. national interest by threatening technology leakage or undermining the health of U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

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? Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Conversations, not chains. They get it. They live it. And to them, it's ridiculously obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Yet, neither BP and the U.S. Heineman, Jr.,

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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. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But today, both macroeconomic forces, and technological advances mean that customized products aren't just for the one percent. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold. By using the rules of the social era. Social Becomes Central to What We Build.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. Health Operations' percent in 1960.

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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. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Communications.

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