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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. Pharmaceutical companies are mastering bio-engineering techniques that will help develop personalized medicines. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

A way around this fallacy, we’ve found, is a speed-dating version of scenario planning, one that takes hours rather than months. For example, the group defined the education driver as “the degree to which US elementary through higher education has developed curricula to produce science and technical talent.”

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business Review

For example, a key source of concern for some companies is more-restrictive rules of origin, which would reduce the amount of materials allowed to be used tariff-free for products traded to and from NAFTA member countries. Multinationals are heavily pushing for either minor tweaking to the agreement or a modernization of NAFTA.