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How Dumb Is Your Business?

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Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci.

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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

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They have built their own standard for supply chain right from procuring raw material to delivery of these meals in schools across. By Maulik Shah , August 23, 2010 @ 12:36 pm Nicely observed and nicely presented by you.I By Maulik Shah , August 23, 2010 @ 12:36 pm Nicely observed and nicely presented by you.I

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

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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. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Doing Less, Leading More

Harvard Business Review

In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. And yet their current success has created a meaningful inflection point in their careers; things are going to be different from now on. Our first accomplishments as professionals are usually rooted in our skill as individual contributors.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. There is nothing new in this.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. We need both.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth. This was crazy, we initially thought. The more we probed the more obvious it became that the "excess" diversification was rational when viewed at the right level.