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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. Our Freedom.

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What to Do If There’s No Clear Career Path for You at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But it’s been decades since that was a reliable path, and not just because of layoffs or outsourcing or robots. These days, the culprit preventing many professionals from identifying a clear career path at their company is simply that one no longer exists. We all know the old script: join a company, work hard, move up the ladder.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. All rights reserved.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. And Big Business did not even make those bets.