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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. We believe company culture is something that should be designed in a deliberate fashion as a part of any strategic planning program.

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. Further, Nike was ranked the #7 most innovative company by Fast Company in 2014 , and the 13 th most admired company by Forbes magazine.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

Many innovative customer-service solutions like these are simple and inexpensive, and they have high payback. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? After a recent credit-card mixup, Apple responded immediately to my email and solved my problem. Why do so many other companies mishandle customer service and leave you to fend for yourself?

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

The conviction spread that, thanks in part to financial innovation, the world's developed economies had become more resilient even as financial markets became more volatile. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits).

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How to Brand a "Useless" Degree

Harvard Business Review

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Next, you''ll want to position yourself as a potential fount of innovation.

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Five Rules for Innovating in a Shaky Economy

Harvard Business Review

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Lars’s guys are irrational in a level-headed way, and Bob Shiller’s guys are irrational in a way that is subject to these social fads and fashions. You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel.

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