N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Beth is another former operator who really understands the business and their 37,000+ workforce.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

A new type of services company could transform global supply chains: Financial technology companies that act as intermediaries in facilitating transactions between a company and its suppliers. FinTechs are internet companies that streamline financial systems and make funding the supply chain more efficient.

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Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 9

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

An analysis of the organization's strengths and weaknesses is typically an internal examination process. It's typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Opportunities and Threats.

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SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And that’s why we’ve come so close to going from data that one human can process, to Big Data, which requires dozens of sensors to process. Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price. Same for Elon Musk.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

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 Future of Operations. The impact on supply chains. But as soon as demand changes, supply levels at each step of the chain must adjust.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2019

You should have a just-in-time supply chain system, and a system that allows you to get the right people in the right jobs. You should have a look at the cost of running your fleet, and compare it with outsourcing the process. There are several ways you can cut your regular expenses and operational costs.

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Supply Chain Film Outsourcing Cost 51

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Moreover, of those that actually go through some form of disciplined process, many of them seem to believe that once they have set the initial pricing their job is finished – nothing could be further from the truth. As mission critical as pricing is, it is also one of the most often undervalued and overlooked business disciplines. .

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

They find that the process is a distraction to their people, that it does not deliver all the cost savings they anticipated, and that many of the costs they do eliminate soon creep back in, making the whole effort feel futile. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 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. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Advanced logistics, transportation, storage, and processing are also crucial for making sure that food goes from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn’t. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains.

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Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out.

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

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. But innovating for sustainable development is actually quite close to the processes of “traditional” innovation. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. Indeed, corporations like Kraft, consider role rotation standard for building well-rounded leaders , and actively invite promising line managers to take on staff jobs and the reverse.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

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. Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Digital usage in the form of transactions, customer and supplier interactions, and internal business processes, grew almost fivefold — and over the entire period, the leading sectors maintained an enormous lead in usage over everyone else. They take advantage of e-commerce platforms — and may even operate their own.

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Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Long timelines mean greater vulnerability to emerging risks—that is, dangers with a large potential impact that are not well understood or easily quantified, or which emerge as the unanticipated result of disparate causal processes interacting.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Others maintain supply chains, handle logistics, and otherwise support those front-line troops. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. The custodians who clean your facilities, by contrast, can operate under a supervisor with a much broader span of control.

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Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process. The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. That’s what the operational meeting is all about.

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Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process. Of course, the pricing is always what signals the problem, but behind that it is how the innovation process is set up. They let evidence and facts drive innovation processes.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. The Autonomous Outsourcer.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

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Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

“Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” It could be about process — like how long the talks should take, and how the other side tries to involve stakeholders — which still gives you context that might prove useful. Make small talk.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. It carries with it one fundamental assumption: that customers are tangential to the process. They could produce only what was ordered, and thus reverse their supply chain to produce only what is already sold. Big Isn't Enough.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

China and India are still in process of building out their infrastructure; their technology will need more effort to adapt to their complex street environments. What’s our role in the value chain: facilitator, fleet operator, driverless “driver” supplier (versus vehicle manufacturer)? Automotive OEMs.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8