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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. Oh, and what about development methodology? That compilation of tasks that go from time sheet to paycheck?

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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. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. Of course, such plans will have to adapt to actual events, but without a robust plan, "seat of the pants" crisis management won't work.

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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.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 amidst the ongoing employment crisis has opened a wide conversation about what ails America and what should be done about it. innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. as global hegemon. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value.