N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Both scalable and non-scalable businesses can achieve growth and sustainable success.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. And what are your strategic goals? – I would argue; Not much.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. But what about those whose careers are sidetracked or derailed when passed over for a key assignment or big promotion? Are these “losers” out of the running for career advancement, or can they regain their footing, refocus their sights, and continue to rise?

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Jobs was an innovator at heart. He learned both industries under high-risk conditions where his own wealth was at stake and success highly uncertain. Tim Cook's career followed a very different path. Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Tough Supply-Chain Choices. Suddenly, companies and consumers across the world are finding themselves in a moral quandary: How can you make (or purchase) clothing cheaply without compromising supply-chain ethics? You Want Me to Innovate Where? I Would Give This Five Stars, But. Just a myth, apparently.

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Supply Chain Health Care Letter Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Software quickly sifts through thousands of job applications and shortlists candidates who have the credentials that are most likely to achieve success at the company. Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Business leaders, along with the companies they lead, will need to take an active stance, shaping the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

But in the meantime, what can you do in an up-or-out environment to build your career without inflicting collateral damage? If we had viewed each other strictly as competitors, we might have been inclined to guard our successes, hide our shortcomings, and avoid collaborating. However, we had a different outlook.

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Supply Chain Operations Restructuring Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. 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. First, ideas are important. Ideas define our humanity.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

As Moneyball and the rise of quants in professional sports worldwide attest, the ability to relentlessly improve the quality and specificity of performance analytics is key to success. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable).

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Experience in an outside firm should be a requirement before embarking on your career in the family business, says Lachenauer. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like. Define your role and career path. What the Experts Say. ” Adopt an office voice. .”

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Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, Atlanta Summit The HR Digest: Can you point to any single defining moment in your career? Shannon Schuyler: In 2007, I wrote a business case for why PwC US needed a corporate responsibility leader to pull together its global environmental and charitable efforts, and it changed the track of my career.

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Diversity CEO Ryan Education 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. Make you more innovative. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Not only that, but the most successful teams mixed things up.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, of the profound productivity difference between employees who just punch the clock to get their daily pay and those who engage in learning to make productive contributions through which they can build their careers and thereby reap future returns in work and in retirement. Social innovation. Employee incentives.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. Succession. Just 41% of FOB directors said their boards had an effective CEO succession planning process (vs.

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FOB Diversity Talent Management How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I spend a significant amount of my time associating with a pro-business think tank that has been building an impressive database of entrepreneurs, small businesses, start-ups, and innovation-driven enterprises in Africa. This was crazy, we initially thought.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 15