N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

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. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? For over 30 years, U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

It renews interest in their task and keeps them engaged with your operation. They are also more efficient so they get the job done faster using fewer resources. If your business operates in the retail sector, you should invest in sales technique training. Information technology skills are highly relevant to any business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs. Faster Hospital Bed Assignments.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

With the passage of time and enhancements in the technology sector, employees get a lot of leverage because they can work anywhere that may not be their workplace if they are not compromising on quality, efficiency, and punctuality. Thanks to breakthroughs in virtual technology, businesses have benefitted as well.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon employee monitoring systems have often been criticized for being too over-the-top in its pursuit for efficiency and this case is no different. Amazon was fined by French regulator CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés) which is a data protection agency that oversees information technology services within the region.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Southwest Airlines, for example, has figured out how to do well the two operational things that matter most: Keep more planes in the sky more often, and fill each of them up more, and more often, than anyone else. First, hospital operations are in many ways like airline and airport operations and transportation services.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. Information & technology Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Interchangeable parts spurred ideas about structuring assembly lines and logistics. “The feedback is much more rapid.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. The process also includes a determination of how much of the activities are classified as capital expenditures versus ongoing operating expenses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

In its simplest terms, it means outsourcing your company's information technology (IT) needs, from data and storage to software. In my last book, Green Recovery , I focused on IT as one of five operational areas where green initiatives help companies save money quickly (the others were facilities, distribution, telework, and waste).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

One of the things that IT departments are after, and I think it could be related to the Veterans Administration, is efficient use of those budgets. It’s a budget decision, which depends on what the principle operation is. I can only assume that’s analogous to how the VA’s primary operation is healthcare, not IT operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Selecting project managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise. HSS has multiple groups that drive efficiencies in discrete parts of a patient’s episode of care (i.e., Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

But the savings go beyond efficiency. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' This cuts down the time tremendously.” Drivers are willing to pay for that certainty.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

But the savings go beyond efficiency. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' This cuts down the time tremendously.” Drivers are willing to pay for that certainty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Juliano Howard T.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

In your initial days and weeks as the new CIO, it will be imperative to determine whether your organization has a sound strategy for increasing efficiency, service quality, and transparency for your community. IT management Information & technology' A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. As one U.S. As one U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

For Commonwealth Bank of Australia, convergence involved bringing together operations and IT into a new unit, Enterprise Services (ES), headed by the CIO. Convergence usually requires the introduction of new organizational structures to create efficiencies and synergies and to increase reuse of resources. CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. IT management Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But that is about to change, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare. Expectations of growth in this sector are robust.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

And some universities, including Harvard, have created revolving green funds that invest endowment dollars into energy efficiency. A similar transition happened several decades ago when the Director of IT evolved into the CIO role in order to strategically manage information technology resources for better business outcomes.

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