N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. As an Army Veteran myself, I agree with you.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Create a competitive advantage, set the right tone, make effective decisions, keep talent inside your doors, and establish credibility-all while navigating unfamiliar and turbulent waters. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. Beyond the technical maturity issue, there are several other problems with the idea that companies will be able to adopt quickly once technologies are more capable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle. How has Bezos done this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

As the business environment becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, few leaders express confidence in their companies' ability to adapt. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Increasing numbers of companies are looking to build a behavioral science team — one that is located at the very center of their business and that the whole organization can benefit from. With the right support and training, these internal project managers will be your future behavioral analysts. ” You aren’t alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These inward-looking groups were able to impose discipline on their practice: enforcing standards, mentoring and training new entrants, and refining and building on old expertise to create new more valuable knowledge. However, this guild mentality often creates debilitating incoherence within the larger company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Of course, GE is not dead, and it may well revive and flourish as a company. Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Do you believe that sustainability is important for your company, but that it’s “someone else’s problem?” Unsurprisingly, carbon emissions by the world’s largest companies are increasing and only one third of the 600 largest companies in the U.S. TOSHINORI TARUI/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. We are all lean now — or soon will be.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Just because something is written in a vision or mission statement, placed on a website, included in company collateral material, or frequently espoused by corporate leadership as a competitive value proposition doesn’t necessarily mean its true. If your company doesn’t have a Chief Talent Officer, Chief People Officer etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed. For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. As the scale and scope of our company have expanded over the years, so has our focus on taking meaningful steps to improve the world in which we live. It is a key competitive advantage. The HR Digest: C. Robinson and in global logistics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The firm effectively trains its people to hire and work with the world’s best and brightest algorithms. Versions of this are ongoing at companies such as Netflix and Alibaba. ” Firms look to leverage, amplify, and network autonomy into self-sustaining competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Companies have at their disposal, for the first time, the full set of building blocks to begin embedding machine intelligence in their businesses. And unlike with the internet, where latecomers often bested those who were first to market, the companies that get started immediately with machine intelligence could enjoy a lasting advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Second, with the public declarations by many companies to help with the goals , there is likely to be competitive pressure. of the time.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. your training program in 3 easy steps: No boring slides, free will, and story. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Why should we make this investment?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2015

Roughly half report that the two aspects of employee performance most negatively affected by personal finances are stress and the ability to focus on work (50% and 47%, respectively). EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? About SoFi.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. My leadership training is from the Marine Corps. And you sure as heck won't be leading anyone for very long, much less a company of any size.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

And this will only happen if we align the interests of workers and investors such that companies focus on worker well-being to deliver better financial results. Companies have a role to play in addressing this challenge, and doing so needn’t come at the expense of performance. America needs to become a great place to work again.

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