N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Where possible all pricing should be subject to nuanced considerations.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The impact on supply chains. A looming crisis. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. And managers aren’t helping. Too worried about their own hides, most managers don’t have time or energy to focus on anyone else’s. Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. Understand what you’re evaluated on.

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Career Development Company Supply Chain 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the Retail 4.0 Supply-chain and Demand. The sole purpose of a marketplace platform is to fill the gap between supply and demand.

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Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 109

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The 20th-century version of globalization was defined by rapidly growing trade in goods, as major multinationals created supply chains that spanned the world. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8

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Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.). Insight Center.

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Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. Competitiveness in IT will come from connecting employees and partners in meaningful ways to bring products to market faster (how does a supply chain process shrink from days to minutes?),

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. But awareness of the challenges is the first step toward managing them.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the marketplace model today. Supply-chain and Demand. The sole purpose of a marketplace platform is to fill the gap between supply and demand.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. It’s neither.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 11

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. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The idea of revealing human capital data in annual reports is not new and the reports won’t change overnight; however there is now an unmistakeable trend towards enhanced reporting. Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector. This is no fringe movement.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. Exceptional executives have deep knowledge of how the pieces of the organization fit together to create value and deliver results.

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Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. This problem is not limited to top management, however. The list goes on and on.

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Disruption to supply chains will mean reduced output and shortages will send prices soaring. Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

It’s time for them to rethink their supply-chain strategies. Adjusting to new economic realities as well as political and economic uncertainties will require making their supply chains much more resilient. Our argument has been that a number of trends have leveled the playing field around the globe.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Both of these trends existed before Trump became president, but his election has accelerated them both. We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate.

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