N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It hurried along the formation of global supply chains with ever greater efficiency and economies of scale. Shredded vertical supply chains. Spawned vast new horizontal value chains, in which millions of people began creating their own virtual meeting places and marketplaces with their own lateral economies of scale.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The BP Commission properly criticized the federal government for failing to assume leadership soon enough or to act effectively in coordinating the private sector and public sector (federal, state and local) actors. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. Business Purpose. Use of Revenues and Margins. Working Conditions.

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