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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. They moved with the most efficient best practice as they unfold. Oh, and what about development methodology? Our Freedom.

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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. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP).

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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. innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore.