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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. consultants, etc.),

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Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. Essential background.