N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2017

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Don’t outsource the hard rigor of transformation – insource it by getting smarter, faster, and more creative.

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Insourcing CEO Business Model Outsourcing 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. The union acted as a second set of leaders to help execute and reinforce changes. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story. So, how did GE do it?

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward.

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Stress Insourcing Retail Uncertainty 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Do you really want to financially incentivize your executives to make hiring decisions that place a greater value upon diversity mandates than qualifications?

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem.

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Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Unlike most other states in the United States, but more like innovative Western European countries like Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, California has rules about allowing job mobility within markets. Non-competes have contributed to the more rigid, vertically integrated, and prone to insourcing ethos of Boston’s high tech region.

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