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. I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend as well.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

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. How does one put a check on this kind of unproductive jousting?

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Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. But what's really going on is that Jeff Bezos has trained elements of the investment community to expect that low profits (or big losses) now represent investments that will eventually pay off, not signs of trouble. How has Bezos done this?

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

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. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

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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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

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. The authors concluded that when consumers have an option, sustainability can become a competitive differentiator.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If the AI you are adopting employs machine learning, you will have to round up a substantial amount of training data. For instance, if an AI system is trained to create product recommendations based on customer demographics and the demographics change dramatically in new data, it may provide biased recommendations.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. The firm effectively trains its people to hire and work with the world’s best and brightest algorithms. ” Firms look to leverage, amplify, and network autonomy into self-sustaining competitive advantage.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage. of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Find the Right Home for the Team.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

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?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. In some contexts, they add competitive advantage.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way. Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15