N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations. New operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

It starts with a focus on skills. Although many boards continue to select new members from their own networks, our research suggests that more are beginning to implement objective processes to select members based on the skills and attributes that boards need to be effective. In our survey, we also asked about specific skills.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8