N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In. Small Business Trends Anita Campbell Editor provides information of interest to entrepreneurs and executives.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The following are some tips that will enable you to conduct your global business successfully. Whether you have an established global business or are looking to expand to new markets, you don't have the advantage of being everywhere at once to meet and connect with your teams and customers. Do global business but act local.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If you think the business processes in your own company are complex, try running an operation globally that moves 5 billion passengers every year in roughly 25,000 commercial aircraft, via 15,000 airports located in 195 countries. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2015

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Use this prime real estate on your resume to outline how your skill set and achievements can benefit the prospective employer, by not only keeping the product pipeline full but demonstrating success moving products through the process with external regulatory agencies and internal departments on a global and local scale.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. Yet it does not have a single representative on Interbrand’s list of the top 100 global brands. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

By 1993, just eight years after its founding, Blockbuster was the global leader in movie rentals, with more than 3,400 stores worldwide. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. And while the pace of globalization may have slowed, it has not retreated. Then Netflix happened.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, ushered in a new era of globalization. Political sentiment has turned against globalization and the political and economic policies that promoted it. Domestic champions receive favorable regulatory treatment that makes competing with them difficult for global corporations.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. To me, that highlights the importance of reading, watching, listening and generally paying attention to what’s happening, not only locally, but also globally.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

At a higher level, governments have long understood that their nations are well served by industries that win in the global marketplace—and have pursued forward-looking industrial policies to help them. He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". I said that I had, and that they were spotless. What did he mean?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Taking action on the global goals could help address several of these obstacles that are giving rise to “trapped value” in the emerging markets.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Robinson and in global logistics. Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While no one advocates for labor abuses, poor working conditions are often seen as an inevitable consequence of global trade. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. The top 10 insurance brokers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Each initiative claims it is critical to the success of the organization, yet their competition puts that very success in jeopardy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. The spread of capitalism and the associated growth in emerging markets provide organizations of all sizes with an opportunity to participate in globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Arguably the most interesting development in retail banking is the emergence of mobile banking in places like Kenya and India where the shortcomings of the traditional financial system have created opportunities for mobile companies to get engaged in retail finance (see Jaideep Prabhu and Navi Radjou's HBR blog on this topic last year ).

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Banking Retail Competitive Advantage Report 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. The practice of using data collaboratives tends to be global and cross-sectoral.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Over the past few years, most businesses have come to recognize that the ability to collect and analyze the data they generate has become a key source of competitive advantage. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. PM Images/Getty Images. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Since the classical style is the best known to corporate planners and I've already discussed the adaptive style in depth in a previous HBR article (" Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage " with co-author Mike Deimier) let's take a closer look at the other two: shaping and visionary.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Companies need these practical hacktivists to dream up new ways to meet the needs of consumers who require customization on demand and to outpace competitors in an era when competitive advantage is often fleeting. Sarah Windham, senior public relations manager in global tools and storage at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Globally, twice as many men become entrepreneurs, but the number of women becoming entrepreneurs is increasing rapidly. The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. Female-founded startups outperformed all-male teams.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Transdev, a large global transport operator, has set up a behavioral science capability called CHANGE by Transdev aspart of the Performance and Development department.

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