N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. One may question the value of these improvement strategies without a system to measure their success effectively.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2022

At the peak of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, countries around the world scrabbled to try and produce and procure sufficient quantities of medical equipment, such as ventilators, to allow health systems to cope with the deluge of patients. Diverse inputs.

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Innovation Supply Chain Diversity Project 107

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. We’ll also offer some examples of how digitally native businesses have addressed these challenges. Let’s offer a tangible example. Take FedEx for example. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. Diversity. Our business systems need leeway for extremes as well. billion hit to earnings). Redundancy and buffers. Fast feedback and failure.

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

election and Brexit are only the most recent examples of the pervasive, burgeoning importance to corporations of business-in-society issues. This, in turn, involves sorting out different ideologies in those systems about how government should function: from the libertarian to the conservative to the populist to the liberal to the socialist.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Because of this increased diversity and scope of adoption, the learnings are deeper. For example, in a recent post I told the story of eight healthcare companies that pulled together as a team to map the current process for hip and knee replacements and redesign it to improve the patient experience.

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Operations Six Sigma Supply Chain Webinar 15

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

In an interview with The HR Digest , Tyszko explains the crucial importance of tapping into hidden talent in new ways and achieving diversity, equality and inclusion goals in 2020. The HR Digest: You have been critical in pushing for progress in diversity & inclusion (D&I) in the workforce.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups). Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. As corporations rethink their global supply chains and business models, creating ecosystems of suppliers and aspiring entrepreneurs could be part of the solution.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Who doesn’t want to live in a future free from congestion, collisions, and pollution from combustion engines and the petroleum supply chain? What are some of the key vulnerabilities of such a new system? — that I hope adds diverse and contrarian thinking to discussions of a driverless future. System Meltdown.

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Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

It encourages executives to apply the dark arts of Machiavelli in order to influence their company’s direction and it offers no guidance to CEOs trying to make their systems generate good ideas and strategies. After all, squaring this circle is precisely what a legal system is supposed to do. There is a Better Way.

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Strategy Teamwork Strategic Planning Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. Increasingly frequent natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami have made clear how risky complex global supply chains can be.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups). Amazon, for example, analyzes enormous pools of data to predict who their customers are and what their customers will buy next. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent?

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In South Africa, integrated reporting is a requirement for listed companies on an apply or explain basis and the European Commission passed legislation that will require around 6,000 European entities to disclose on non-financial and diversity information. Why the interest? That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Currently in the business world we are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies — a rapid convergence of two very unlike systems that will cause the elements of both to realign. My own company, for example, the Bosch Group, produces over half a million things each day across more than 1,500 product categories.)

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Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

Dawn Jones, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Vice President of Social Impact, Intel, is not short on ambition. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Intel continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). In these past few years, you also implemented?several?strategic

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Diversity Supply Chain Globalization Mentor 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

At the heart of the Denver-based company’s crisis was the ever-present problem faced by companies that depend on multiple suppliers to deliver parts and ingredients: a lack of transparency and accountability across complex supply chains. Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system.

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Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh makes all too clear, the factory jobs in our global supply chain carry significant risks for the millions of people who fill them — the majority of whom are women under the age of 30. In the corporate arena, compliance systems need to be revised through the lens of gender.

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Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

People do think about global customers, they do think about global supply chains, but they really don''t think about global talent. Peter Warwick: For organizations to be really successful in the future, they''ve got to think in terms of talent and workforce, as well as capabilities and culture.

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Globalization Supply Chain Marketing Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

My favorite example was a Corporate Affairs team that had an ambitious agenda to work collaboratively to transform the perception of the organization among members of the public, the regulator, and three levels of government. I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process.

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Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. A 1% transaction fee may not seem like much, but down a 15-step supply chain, it adds up. For example, imagine the overhead involved in renting temporary furnishings for a house. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

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Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In the business community, just as in a natural ecosystem, an individual organism (in this case a company) is vulnerable to changes in the availability of these systemic inputs. Together, these diverse players will help governments, companies and communities work together to manage the nexus.

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Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Conglomerates are defended for their synergies, and for the benefits of diversity as a hedge against failure in one sector (though this argument is often oversold by management, since shareholders can diversify and thus hedge risk for themselves). But conglomerates are inherently more vulnerable than other companies.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

While Narendra Modi’s “Make In India ” initiative to promote manufacturing in India was mocked by some , North American executives are increasingly looking to expand their manufacturing supply chains beyond China. American success stories in India. “In the future, manufacturing will be far more decentralized.

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Supply Chain Decentralization Automotive Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

That’s just the beginning of the confusion—even if you accepted that such diverse investments should all be grouped into one category, how do you even measure and compare impact anyway? First, they search for examples of impact within their existing portfolios, bringing no incremental capital into the field.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

The various roles in an organization are structured in a system of self-organizing (but not self-directed) circles. Holacracy Examples. AIMMS , supply chain analytics. Cooperative Examples. Employee-owned Examples. Sociocracy is a socially responsible system of governance that originated in The Netherlands.

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Organization ESOP Cooper Reis 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Over the course of the evening, 60 people drink red wine and laugh together in the heart of London as they watch an improvisational opera singer sum up the findings of the day: the characteristics of a financial system they would collectively be proud to put their name to. Consider this example: the Future of Fish.

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System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

How can hospitals and health systems generate a return on their investment in their physician enterprises? As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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Insurance Incentives System Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Donald Trump and many of his advisers appear hostile to action on climate change and to progress on many social issues that companies have already embraced, such as diversity and LGBT rights. More companies are recognizing climate’s systemic risks. The Economics of Clean Tech. The economics are too good.

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