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. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both.

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Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. In a nutshell, this means leveraging consumer, worker, and corporate power to drive change at the companies you do business with. , aimed at stakeholders invested in changing this reality. Lastly, make it official.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The combined firm may benefit from economies of scale in doing so, but increases in market power may also result. For example, Express Scripts and Anthem were partners in the medical supply chain. This is commonly thought of as bargaining with a supplier or buyer.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. A tree branch hit a power line in Ohio in August 2003, causing cascading failures across a highly connected U.S. billion hit to earnings).

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 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 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

MAY 6, 2011

general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. He is the co-author, with Mette Norgaard, of Touchpoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (Jossey-Bass, May 2011).

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Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

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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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

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.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. They have the power to change the world. From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

To hold otherwise, the justices explained, would give patent holders the power to control secondary markets — power that patent law never intended. “And advances in technology, along with increasingly complex supply chains, magnify the problem.”

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Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. First, technology imitation occurs far more quickly today than in the past, due in part to the global base of technology competitors and the speed of reverse engineering.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Between 2008 and 2012, Walmart more than doubled sales by adding 100 hypermarkets to its existing 400 stores, acquiring Trustmart in 2011, and picking up a majority stake in online retailer Yihaodian in 2012. In some industries, scale lowers supply chain costs but it doesn’t provide bargaining power over buyers.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Size once gave organizations purchasing power. During Fashion Week in September 2011, Burberry did a direct campaign with an everyday consumer (not just the editors and fashionistas) to showcase their new line in what they called a #tweetwalk, letting users tweet about what they liked (or didn't). By using the rules of the social era.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Today’s digital revolution brings three new components: ubiquitous networks that connect people, devices, and systems instantly and globally; the data that these networks collect and the ability to store that data cost-effectively; and processing power and techniques that enable us to analyze and act on the available data.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The changes in healthcare – consolidation, restructuring, regulation, spending pressures – that are necessitating a transformation at Philips Healthcare are a subset of a series of powerful forces in the business world that have catapulted marketing from an often-isolated support function to a critical capability for driving above-average growth.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. 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. That's right. Contestification.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

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

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Knowledge of results is a powerful force in growing and learning. Goal setting creates a power of one’s life…especially the part that relates to work.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The scene around my Connecticut home is not pretty, with downed trees and power lines everywhere. After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. Hurricane Sandy has killed more than 100 people in the U.S. and the Caribbean, and caused billions of dollars in damage.

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Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. Planning for the possibility of a severe earthquake and a subsequent tsunami were part of Japanese reliance on nuclear power. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Yes, Apple already has some sustainability initiatives in its supply chain and other areas. But it can do much more.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Similarly, researchers at the OECD have found that markups — a measure of companies’ profits and market power — have increased more in digitally-intensive industries. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Almost all of the founders we interviewed provided useful lessons, but three CEOs in particular exemplified each of the qualities that make the founder’s mentality so powerful. 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

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. Corporate arrogance and ego, based upon power and influence (as well as money). Think they can make more money, amass more power.

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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. But due to the advance of computing power, deep learning has become practical, and AlphaGo was the first to achieve such a stunning mimicry of intuitive thinking. Natural languages.

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