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. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2016

The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting. But with of all of the difficulties the passing months bring, positives do present themselves for selling teams that are effective and organized. You just finished reading Put Time on Your Team ! Consider leaving a comment!

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Due Diligence Team Supply Chain Finance 50

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? Our employees are experts in helping our customers create more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chains.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Skip Prichard

APRIL 27, 2020

And then keep adapting as we learned more about how to deal with health issues, work-from-home issues, finances, family, school and technology. Well, for leaders like myself and my panelists, that was compounded by trying to help guide our teams and departments through hazards and processes we’ve never had to deal with before.

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Supply Chain Crisis Learning-by-Doing Finance 111

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2021

Global commerce continues to expand and supply chains are becoming more complex. The risks can be controlled and avoided when team members assume responsibility for identifying the risk before evaluating and addressing them. The top five operational risks are collaboration, cultural, customer, people, and technology risks.

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Operations Strategy Management Risk Management 123

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

And, when political turmoil in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Mideast erupted, many businesses could only watch and wait to learn what it would mean for their supply chains. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

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Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

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.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

My Whole Self To mark My Whole Self day on 13 March, CMI’s head of policy and innovation, Daisy Hooper , explained why managers must acquire the necessary skills to bring out the best in their teams. CMI endorses MHFA England ’s call for managers to be equipped with the skills to bring out the very best in their teams.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors.

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

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

JANUARY 28, 2020

Changes in tools, teams, regulations, and markets are putting sustainability in the hands of the finance department.

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CFO Finance Tools Marketing 10

HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2021

Finance special emphasis on block chain and Cryptocurrency. Supply chain management. Collaborations and conflict resolution are good skills to leverage as, again, working in a team where most business is carried out online is an advantage. . Brand Management. Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning. Cloud computing.

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Skills Supply Chain Emotional Intelligence Affiliate Marketing 116

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action. Ultimately, every organizational function is having to manage the pressure of change in digital transformation, business models, and other areas.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 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. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. The longer the time horizon, the more appealing many aspects of ESG, as mentioned above.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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. In the upper left quadrant are the multi-year rollouts, like large Enterprise Resource Planning or supply chain modernization endeavors.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

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

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Each meeting was cordial and the managers seemed to appreciate the input.

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Supply Chain Power Engineering Group Facilitation 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. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

You and Your Team Series. In most positions, whether it’s enterprise sales, brand marketing, supply chain logistics, or corporate finance, being competent often consists of having deep functional knowledge in four or five key job areas and a good working knowledge in another four or five. Learning to Learn.

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Career Development Company Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

And he or she must play demonstrably well with others on the team. Finding people with the right combination of competence, character and team skills isn't easy, of course, even if you conduct a long, carefully-orchestrated search. Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T.,

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Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We believe that by working longer, harder, and smarter than our team, we’ll inspire by example. In a word, we’re doers. But when we carry this mindset into our first leadership roles, we confuse doing with leading. This emphasis on leading and not merely doing has had a profound impact on management education.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In the process she developed managerial muscle in finance, human resources, governance, and IT, and, as a bonus, Bronwyn gained more flexibility in her schedule since she didn’t have external client demands driving her day-to-day work. Reshaping your current role is another way to grow on the plateau.

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Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. When her firm decided to invest in start-ups, she was asked to put together a team to make it happen. Soon she was meeting regularly with the senior executive team about deals and overall strategy.

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

His record is one of a brilliant strategist who has the rare ability to manage creative talent on the one hand while maintaining a firm grip on business fundamentals such as brand synergies, distribution access, supply chains, and sourcing to maximize returns across the LVMH portfolio of brands.

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Ramaswamy Supply Chain Brand Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You can have terrific people working in the right teams and still not see the financial results you’re hoping for. 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.

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Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 9

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 has at least 21 data science systems , which include several supply chain optimization systems, an inventory forecasting system, a sales forecasting system, a profit optimization system, a recommendation engine, and many others.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk.

Globalization 10

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

If so, we should use a set of processes when designing and launching businesses that are geared for prediction — ask the right questions, perform the right analyses, plan production and supply chain for predictable variations on projected sales.

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Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

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. The group leverages a similar-sized contractor team. Business demand exceeds the team’s capacity to deliver. Is there a “right” way to structure these relationships?

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. In fact, we''d be worried if a team were too dogmatic about its path to profits. The company''s efficient supply chain made individual transactions profitable, even at low price points.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. They allow you to prove that you’re highly competent at what you do.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

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. Second, firms should strengthen their government affairs teams to stay ahead of any regulatory changes.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8