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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency.

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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such as supply chain planning, customer order management, and inventory tracking.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth. This was crazy, we initially thought. The more we probed the more obvious it became that the "excess" diversification was rational when viewed at the right level.

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Four Things the Private Sector Must Demand on Cyber Security

Harvard Business Review

Our financial, military, healthcare, utilities, communications, commerce, supply chain, and just about every other essential life and business infrastructure system now depends on it. A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.

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Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business

Harvard Business Review

When we looked at board service, we found that FOB and non-FOB directors had served on an almost identical number of boards in their careers (5.8 A similar percentage held advanced degrees: 75% of FOB directors and 77% of non-FOB directors. respectively) and were currently serving on the same number of boards (3.1). Skills and Assessment.

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