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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. Some 85 people attended and pored over the company's financial and operating plans, intellectual-property portfolio, and employment contracts and examined other aspects of the technology, team, business, and market.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. All of these approaches must extend across the firm and be practiced by contractors down the supply chain.