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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

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Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Well actually, no it’s not. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

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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. Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing? Our Freedom.

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Why Deep Investment In Automation Results In More Jobs

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Indeed, the data shows that a 20% increase in robot use in the sector between 2010 and 2015 corresponded with a 3.2% fall in employment across the sector. When looking at individual firms, however, those companies investing heavily in robots actually saw total employee hours rise by 10.9%.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

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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? Business people will recognize this as a growing challenge in our interconnected economy. All rights reserved.

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

Harvard Business Review

businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3 million workers, at U.S. Loss of Confidence in the U.S.

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Peak Globalization

Harvard Business Review

The year 2010 was the first in the new century that truly revealed the crisp lines of the defining dynamic of our time — the contest for the role of global hegemon between China and the US. There is a strong antagonism toward big corporations and the outsourcing of jobs overseas, as Gen Yers worry about their future.