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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? I always appreciate your insights William.

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The Engagement Mindset

Ron Edmondson

And it always requires two things: the performance of work and the absorption of stress. There are no storm-proof organizations, and there are no sources of competitive advantage that last forever. We can embrace reality or fashion a new version. Change will choose you even if you don’t choose it. It’s all ice.

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Tronc vs. the Right Way for Publishers to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

But it’s really reporting that sets a publication apart, even in seemingly trivial areas like fashion and entertainment. Tronc makes a point of stressing that it is in the content business. Collaboration is the new competitive advantage. The audience is vastly more than eyeballs.

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The Case for Crafting a Big Data Plan

Harvard Business Review

CIOs stress the need to entirely remake data architecture and applications. A data and analytics plan, in similar fashion, should engage the entire enterprise. The sooner executives understand this, the more likely they are to make data a real source of competitive advantage for their organizations.

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How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

Harvard Business Review

A close look reveals that the digital businesses copied by Rocket Internet over the years — Groupon, Amazon, eBay, eHarmony — stress local features. In less than a decade, the Samwer brothers have built a multibillion-dollar empire (and earned the ire of many of the businesses they cloned).