N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. In most cases you can buy a day of my time for my standard daily rate of $10,000.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. All leaders should commit to these actions. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.)

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes).

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. The winning company would not only design and install the project, but also finance it and own it for 20 years, selling power to the residents at a discounted rate. ” Preparation here can be very helpful.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

At Esquel Group, we have been committed to this philosophy over the last three decades and are trying to promote it beyond our corporate boundary. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. We strive to build a long-time dedicated partnership and to share knowledge and experience with them.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. Too often, senior executive teams favor horizontal, internally focused actions like “building a world-class finance function.” Committing to 25 micro battles over the next six months is very different from debating the mathematical allocation of targets across the entire business.

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yes, Apple already has some sustainability initiatives in its supply chain and other areas.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10