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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? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Midsized Companies Can’t Afford Operational Glitches

Harvard Business Review

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.

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Excess Inventory Wastes Carbon and Energy, Not Just Money

Harvard Business Review

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. As we've found so many times before, data and software can play a critical role in making operations more efficient and sustainable. But inventory is not a minor issue.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

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. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets.

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The 4 Types of Small Businesses, and Why Each One Matters

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."