N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

And those that deal with public relations challenges regularly have still been caught off guard by a customer insurgency. How to Have Difficult Conversations When You Don’t Like Conflict. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict. But these days, crises have become a regular state of affairs. Joel Garfinkle.

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Crisis Supply Chain Brand Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. For each of the past 15 years, they have calculated the RQ (reputation quotient) of 60 highly visible companies in the eyes of the American public by measuring perceptions of those companies in six major areas: Social responsibility.

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Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8