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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

But what if you could add a fresh perspective without having to outsource? Through that understanding the team and I can then develop new solutions that save time and money or create greater efficiencies or develop better processes. Businesses often hire consultants to take a “fresh look” at things. Break it Down.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing?

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Moving forward, consider the following questions for strategic development: Opportunity analysis. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

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Online Marketplace: New challenges to overcome

Strategy Driven

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the Retail 4.0 There is the technology and there is business process development, both go hand-in-hand to form a complete marketplace ecosystem.

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Online Marketplace: New challenges to overcome

Strategy Driven

From entertainment to finance, grocery, vegetables, electronics, home furnishing, and cloud services, Amazon is the best example to understand the rapidly evolving face of the marketplace model today. There is the technology and there is business process development, both go hand-in-hand to form a complete marketplace ecosystem.