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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. Across retail, automotive, financial services, and technology a number of common factors emerged that underpinned the ability of companies to weather the Covid storm. The existential difficulties posed by Covid were also reflected, with 43.8%

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New Research Explores The Commercial Consequences Of Collective Layoffs

The Horizons Tracker

Similarly, the researchers believe that layoffs don’t necessarily reflect the quality of the firm’s offering, in the way that product-harm crises inevitably do. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects. ”

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Prototype Your Product, Protect Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Designers and entrepreneurs have been experimenting with live prototyping — putting unfinished product ideas in the context of real markets and real customer situations — for years, and now bigger businesses have begun to catch on. For example, Google Labs is an arm of Google that focuses on creating revolutionary new products.

Brand 8
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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S. economy. .”