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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

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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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

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Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc. link] mikemyatt Hi Tom: Thanks for sharing your insights Tom.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Midsized Companies Can’t Afford Operational Glitches

Harvard Business Review

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. million in financing for a new 50,000-square-foot bakery, which opened in 2008.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. The average compensation that year of their 27.3

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right. Contestification.

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80% of Companies Don’t Know If Their Products Contain Conflict Minerals

Harvard Business Review

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. stock markets.