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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets. Innovation Tech industry Technology' And so Apple has.

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Why Congress Needs to Pass the Innovation Act This Time

Harvard Business Review

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. A 2006 U.S. That’s an increasingly serious problem.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model has been ingrained ever since, so much so that it is rarely questioned.