N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

supply chain is generally recognized as an integral part of the American economy. From Intel’s semiconductors to Microsoft’s enterprise software, the supply chain builds the goods and services that businesses need. supply chain economy is large and distinct. industries.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

With the right type of software and engineers to monitor and tweak it, automated processes could play a major role in the way you operate your logistics. Make sure you do your research and trial any piece of automation technology you use before putting it into service.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The essentials for making the new Digital transformation right The volatility of the pandemic forced businesses to become more agile– technological efficiency, business agility and enhanced security are vital for organisational survival in New Normal. Dileepa de Silva for the completion of 25 years of membership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with… Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps. Economic demands place increasing pressure on executive and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety, reliability, and efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” So high quality, creative content is critical, but it’s not a technology. This is a wasted opportunity. Constant Contact.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Connecting the digital world of research, design, engineering and manufacturing enables a company to drastically reduce the time to introduce new products, leading to faster responses to customer needs and higher engineering productivity. Combining deep expertise in both digital technology and industrial machines is not easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

True, there are many companies offering services such as data analytics, help with creating viral campaigns, social-media mining, and search-engine optimization. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it. Technologies have allowed the marketing organization to become more efficient and effective.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

With over 1,000 companies trying to sell some type of marketing technology in over 40 categories, it’s not surprising that the most common word that marketers use to describe themselves is “overwhelmed.” So high quality, creative content is critical, but it’s not a technology. This is a wasted opportunity. Constant Contact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. 2 trillion in supply chain management and manufacturing (some of the value accrues to companies while some is captured by customers). How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Partner with farmers in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

Two years ago, at the request of the Obama Administration, the Council on Competitiveness designed a public-private partnership to equip American manufacturers with the high performance computing technology needed to out-innovate and out-compete foreign competition. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

That leaves Apple vulnerable to a whole host of supply chains risks (e.g., As Willy Shih and I argue in our new book Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance , when products and process technologies become interdependent, geographic proximity between R&D and manufacturing can be valuable. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Invest in anti-counterfeit technology. QR and RFID schemes can use blockchain technology to prevent fraud and counterfeiting. Luxury brands can code or tag their products the same way not only to feed their own database but also to share with (and get updates from) all actors in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. Evidently these engines, because they were older, had add-on sensors, not the built-in ones, but the point is the same.).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. Rehabilitate a misfit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

In this case, organization leaders should demand a conversation about talent sourcing as sophisticated as one about their supply chain. It’s an old-school idea common to technology companies as far back as the 1980’s, akin to “we know more about the engineers that work for our competitors than they do.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. This was delaying product production.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

He deserves the attention: This is a man who transformed the technology world and helped build Apple into what was, at least for a few hours earlier this month, the world's most valuable publicly traded company. When those improvements intersected with the iPhone's great screen technology, the iPad (that glorious Air/iPhone hybrid) exploded.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks. If a person with an engineering degree wishes to run the division someday, what additional education and work experience should they obtain, and in what order?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

At one global technology services firm, salespeople grew furious with a CRM system whose new analytics effectively held them accountable for pricing and promotion practices they thought undermined their key account relationships. The mathematics and technologies of sophisticated analytics are increasingly well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

How are these thriving firms reinventing themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces? Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Ford mastered mass production of cars with internal combustion engines a century ago. Can the industrial titan reinvent itself in a climate-conscious world?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Employing a circular supply chain would help make processes, such as product design, procurement, and waste management, more efficient and productive. Companies like Dell have started establishing closed-loop supply chains to get more value out of the materials in its products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Strategic talent constraints are typically described in vast interconnected global supply chains and high-tech knowledge jobs like software engineers and research scientists. Just as with the ride-sharing drivers, technology is making alternative jobs easily available to your pivotal talent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

dollar, rising fuel costs and the risks inherent in longer supply chains have many companies rethinking their sourcing strategies. When wages are relatively low, for instance, create labor-intensive processes to reduce the cost of equipment, technology and automation. Is it time to retrench? Not if you want to stay in the game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

As the pace of technological change has quickened and the costs of R&D have grown, that model has ceased to work. automakers too have pushed product and process improvement out through their supply chain via the relentless drive to achieve 3% cost reduction year after year and still build competitive new models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. billion people.

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