N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a well reasoned and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

There was a Canadian entrepreneur named William Merritt who was enjoying a picnic with his wife on the banks of the Niagara River, and they’d received a letter from their children who were visiting Europe. In 1848, he got started in typical Elliot fashion with a contest. And the history of this bridge is fascinating.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I'll illustrate the process in a simplified way using a fictional retail bank based on an analysis of 115 banks by Venky Nagar of the University of Michigan and Madhav Rajan of Stanford. Creating economic value is a logical governing objective for a company that operates in a free market system. Step 4: Evaluate your statistics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. Digital transformation requires new strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

London's Daily Mail likewise derided the banking giant for " tak[ing] the sexiness out of the City." Since leaders shrink from suggesting that subordinates don flesh-colored underwear, a 43-page handbook on dress, decorum, and grooming is precisely what thousands of would-be professionals need to negotiate treacherous fashion fads.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Despite the inventiveness of these entrepreneurs, some operate in the informal economy, without government registration, IP rights, or access to banking. Local Craft : Africa is a land of craft with local artisans involved in leather works for shoes, bags, and fashion. Major clusters are forming in Lagos, Nairobi, and Kigali.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

A World Bank study tells us that the cost of land in Dhaka, where hundreds of thousands of garment workers live, is comparable to suburban New York. It’s imperative that brands operating in Bangladesh join collaborations like these. But even considering these factors, there’s more to the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Intangibles like local fashion, language, and cultural norms must not be taken for granted at the physical interface where brands connect with customers. The products are packaged and "bottled" in Nigeria, and few things are visibly foreign in the products or the business operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. In our version, we sought to identify only companies that are design leaders. Starting with a list of over 75 publicly-traded U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But what no one doubts is that Sony’s cyber-defences have been breached in the most humiliating fashion. Schadenfreude aside, however, Sony’s breach is important not for technical vulnerabilities exposed and secrets revealed, but for the operational challenges it highlights.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Now the best description might be, “giant bank account with a company attached.” Now it is true that Facebook acts in Big-Brother-like fashion all the time, and despite incessant complaints over the years it has proved remarkably successful at keeping users engaged. There was a time when Twitter could be described as “plumbing.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Sure, most of us target audiences 18-to-34 years of age or, if we're building fast-fashion or youth brands, we target audiences 14-to-24 years of age. Credit card issuer MBNA (now Bank of America) was known in the 1990s for its corporate mantra, "Think of yourself as the customer." It might even change what you do radically.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. This might seem like just good old-fashioned salesmanship. It has allowed us to secure a new bank and insurance company as clients this year.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In another example, GSMA, the trade body representing mobile operators, has developed a framework to collaborate in maximizing their contribution towards the SDGs, in particular improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, providing quality education, and acting on climate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. In a major U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, as saying. For some time now,” says David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, “the ‘shareholder uber alles ’ mantra has been crowding out the old-fashioned stakeholder notion.”. Freeman Jr.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

The central battle pits Apple against everyone and everything involved with Android, Google’s open source operating system. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,” Jobs is quoted as saying in a series of jeremiads , “and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40bn in the bank, to right this wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Caterpillar , for example, publishes its dealer sales statistics by region each month, while the Spanish bank Santander puts out a newsletter with key operating results and commentary. Acting and communicating in this fashion will also start to attract long-term investors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Yet, the recent fall of Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO , underscores a basic truth: Independent boards of directors are still the best mechanism — or the least worst one — for holding business leaders accountable, even if many boards have failed in their attempts to do this, often in spectacular fashion.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

We view control over our time as more important than “lots of money in the bank” as a sign of success. Simply speaking to our audience in a natural, unscripted fashion builds trust because it’s hard to hide. We are actively seeking ways to wrest back some sense of control over our lives. We want greater self-sufficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. link] mikemyatt Again, thank you for the kind words Awinash and I hope I've helped in some fashion. What more proof does one need?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s. Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This online tool allows any individual to create a mobile application for uploading to any operating system including Android, Apple, BlackBerry, and Windows. Some templates include accounting firm, bank, bar, cooking, educational, family, fashion, general business, salon, and vehicle services.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The company wanted to make its banking services more enticing to millennials. This exercise revealed an important insight: Millennials didn’t find switching banks onerous if they liked a bank’s products. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Banking. Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. Banks are now trying to compete with financial planners and investment banking houses. ’ What they’re really selling: Small business banking services. We Earn It. Smith Barney.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sports Authority, United Airlines, Best Buy, and Walmart to name just a few — that need to get it, don't. Social can be — and already is — more than Media. They live it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

From building cross-functional customer segment units to creating additional teams that cut across merchandizing, store operations, and segment owners, senior leadership at Best Buy saw to it that the entire organization embraced an outside-in approach. Q: How long does this process generally take? And what are the benchmarks of success?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. utility sector. — is seeming possible again.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

But a matter of ongoing policy flux can’t be approached in that fashion. And the Bank of England has written to the CEOs and branch managers of all firms with cross-border activities between the UK and the rest of the EU to ask for contingency plans by July 14.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. The World Bank estimates that $158 trillion worth of assets are at risk from increased natural disasters. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal.

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