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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. However, our research suggests that outsourcing production is not inexorably tied to poor workplace conditions. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

The Autonomous Outsourcer. Business process outsourcing becomes business process algorithmization. The same sensibilities and economic opportunities that make outsourcing appealing become managerial principles for computational autonomy. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments.