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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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

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 technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The impact on supply chains. A looming crisis.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases. IT as Process Creator.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The greening of the supply chain. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice).

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Up until now, at least in the U.S.,

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Changes in enterprise IT over the past decade mean that every company is now a technology company. They don’t have a full picture of what is on their networks, the cloud services they’re using, the applications running on those services, and the security postures of their supply chains and partners.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Tactics Learning-by-Doing 8