N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy. 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.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. The agents, middlemen and the whole supply chain related to these services is being disrupted. Equally important for leaders is to re-iterate and reinforce vision, values and strategies. that we used otherwise.

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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. That would be the result of people not being able to get into work safely or not having inputs arrive.” billion hit to earnings).

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

The same survey found that 97% of marketing executives believe this to be a valid business strategy. In 2011, The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Public Company Governance Survey asked about the highest priorities for the board.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. SD : What is ‘capabilities-driven strategy?’. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. But a high-performing organization should do much more than that: Supply chain and operational execs should be ready to shift production and logistics very quickly from one region to another.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. 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. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Larger companies are more at risk than smaller ones, as are companies where the CEO has been in office for a long time, and companies where the CEO is also the board chair, according to PwC’s Strategy& recent CEO Success study. From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9%

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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. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Among the recommendations we offer, one in particular is salient to businesses: supply-chain reform. In 2011, the Coalition of Immokalee workers banded together to get consumers on board to pressure the agricultural industry to improve working conditions. We also published an accompanying toolkit, called #NowWhat ?,

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict. ” Improving risk management.

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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. Are you, too, susceptible to globaloney?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. 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. Who is the most influential living management thinker?

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

China is changing more rapidly than ever, but has your China strategy adapted yet? It therefore decided that it was time to rethink strategy. Indeed, Western multinationals that have picked this strategy may be able to pull it off only by forming alliances with rivals or acquiring them. 2 in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

With fewer products or services to promise, all of the associated supply chain, facility, and support processes can be slimmed down, saving considerable money and energy. The narrowing of choices by these companies has not only made it easier for their customers but has also increased revenues and margins. What's your view?

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Airlines 15

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. New tools and strategies. A classic lesson from strategy is that value can come from entry barriers.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Strategies for growth in a connected world. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

There is no question that Porter's work has helped shape (some would say, "invent") modern-day strategy. But, to put it bluntly, Porter's value chain is antiquated in the light of the social era. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. To match the new environment of constant, low-grade volatility in both prices and supply, producers and consumers of oil may need to re-evaluate assumptions and continuously adjust their strategies. The soaring U.S.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Marketing has become increasingly essential for discovering meaningful insights, designing strategies and offers based on them, and delivering them to the marketplace. The CEO can also make it a point to elicit marketing’s point of view on customer issues during strategy discussions, and carve out time for one-on-one meetings. “We

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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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Cash outlays are always risks. by Hank Moore.

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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. Looking Forward to 2011.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

" Those Pesky Gray Areas The Upsides and Dark Sides of Rivalry Strategy + Business Strategy + Business Most of us aren't psychopaths or saints. Today, most of the Striding Man's features have been wiped out, and for good reason: "He has become a silhouette," writes Molavi, "a colorless everyman.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Seize control of your strategy and budget processes, which too often are designed to ensure every bureaucrat holds on to last year’s resources, and demand a real discussion of where you must redeploy resources. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 Two years later, they sold it to TPG, for about $810 million.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. 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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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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. The algorithm was able to master each game by trial and error — pressing different buttons randomly at first, then figuring out an appropriate strategy and applying it without making any mistakes.

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