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MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. Take Google, for example.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Strategic agility enables entire enterprises to detect and assess major trends and environmental changes and dynamically adapt their vision, business models, human capital and strategy to the new reality. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. You just finished reading Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability !

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They are transforming each and every business model. At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes. Second, boards should step up their understanding of the digital risk profile of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the same way that banks must constantly balance assets and liabilities, data-laden firms need to move from cyber-defense and fire-fighting toward more proactive management of what could prove to be their most important asset.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Comparable challenges exist for supply chain management and external partnerships: their collective intelligence may be ripe for algorithmic harvesting, but how well will it link to the rest of the enterprise? Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. Cloud-based hardware is also increasingly available to any business at low cost. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Analytics are growing in every business function and industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Why is Uber going into the food-delivery business in Barcelona? One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. Growth strategy Risk management Transportation Europe'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

States and power companies can design their own way to compliance using a mix of onsite operational improvements and “beyond the fence” innovations, such as increased reliance on renewable energy sources, low-cost energy efficiency measures, and demand response, which compensates electricity customers for conserving energy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They can continue to conduct business as usual, fighting for pieces of a shrinking pie – or they can change their thinking and their business models and adapt to new realities. Finally, they should think about new business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The key questions are about the impact on your firm’s business model, operating model, EU institutional arrangements and financial structures, and performance. Design contingency plans and reflect any insights in your strategies for growth, geographical footprint, global supply chain, and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Traditional business models aim to create value for shareholders, often at the expense of other stakeholders. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Given the growing complexities of businesses today — in terms of global footprint, changing business models, more complicated constituency networks, risk management, digital technology forces, evolving competitors and other societal shifts — any company in good times is still facing a pretty daunting array of potential challenges.

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Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

You can systematically examine your business model to find its points of vulnerability to information leakage. And you can opt for strategies going forward that depend less on keeping information secret — that depend, perhaps, on difficult-to-imitate operational or sales capabilities, rather than trade secrets.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry was the senior vice president of operations. I''ve said it before, and I''ll say it again: The best path forward is to keep VillageCar separate — the operations, the branding, everything.". And we haven''t seen any evidence that VillageCar''s model is a radical departure from ours or that its customers behave differently.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

For instance, the CORE Institute’s Excellence through Evidence pathways and protocols define when non-operative treatments are and are not likely to be more successful than surgery. A second lever afforded by medical-condition-based bundles is that providers win by selecting high value treatments and care pathways.

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Benchmarking Health Care Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

What makes these companies successful, the strength of their commitment to the mission, also puts them at risk. Organizations that operate as a collection of independent business units have a different cultural problem relative to information security. Organizational culture Data Risk management IT'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Experts from outside industries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. Vera had led the subsequent charge to strengthen the internal audit system.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Expect the impact on your business to be profound. In particular, expect it to challenge your conception of cybersecurity and your ability to deliver it in IoT-enabled digital networks, your commercial operations, and your partner ecosystems. They must also deliver new levels of autonomy to operations.

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White Paper Policies Risk Management Competitive Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. This industry supports a number of intermediaries, such as investment bankers, exchange operators, auditors, lawyers, and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo).

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