N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. And what are your strategic goals?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Developing economies are yet to reach their full appetite for fossil fuels. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. Investors will certainly look to this frontier of innovation to find companies with profit potential.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Play offense - Try desperately not to be on defense. Senen Perfecto Thanks Mike!

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

These executives, bankers and hedge fund managers who took over the once proud manufacturing industry in America and broke it up, outsourced the work or shipped entire factories offshore for obscene profits while destroying the lives of millions of employees don’t need happy coaches. I wonder why? Posting your comment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. Here are three main reasons why.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In many ways, the biggest business developments of 2010 were the things that didn't happen. Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop offshore oil drilling for very long, and didn't produce the political will to push for alternative energy sources. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. “Don’t send only ‘undesirable’ work like porting or testing offshore.

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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. The best factories routinely conduct scientific experiments to improve their processes, and the best factory managers are teachers and innovators as well as leaders of people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Second, the bigger CMOs tend to have specialized skills and knowledge that can help their partners innovate. innovation" typically means just one thing to people: novel gadgets. Few policy makers realize that much of the innovation that has propelled China's economy, for example, is of the incremental or process type.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones. Moreover, governments, concerned about job-creation, data-security, and user-privacy, are challenging the offshoring model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Books, online courses, MOOCs, professional development programs, podcasts, and other resources have never been more abundant or accessible, making it easier than ever to make a habit of lifelong learning. Every day, each of us is offered the opportunity to pursue intellectual development in ways that are tailored to our learning style.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win. Statoil has developed an underwater robot system for pipeline repairs that is reducing repair times.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. .” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation. Millions," said Kappos.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovation' Many of the solutions proposed are around paying people more to manufacture in the USA.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The importance of foreign talent to a country’s innovative capabilities was underlined by a recent letter signed by 40 heads of business schools from across the United States, which makes the case for a more liberal immigration policy that allows greater mobility of talent. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. Shift the focus to include small companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The result is a chasm of opportunity — a vacuum ready to be filled by banks from both the emerging and developed worlds. Even amidst the euro crisis, the World Bank (PDF) expects developing economies to grow at a rate nearly four times that of the developed world over the next year. Filling the Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. In the future, many commoditized products will continue to be made offshore. from China and elsewhere. In the U.S.,

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit. The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. RPA-based process design can restore some useful steps at little cost.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This shift is being brought about by three developments. First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication, exemplified by innovations like Tesla Motors’ robot-heavy car factories and Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit process. Design Manufacturing Product development' But doing so will not be cheap or easy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve. It takes time for clients and employees to adapt to monumental change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

” Yet most major technologies develop over decades, as large numbers of people learn how to apply, adapt, and improve the initial invention. Ultimately, the biggest factor in that wage growth was technology, the productivity growth it unlocked, and the development of mature labor markets that valued the weavers’ skills.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In an era of physical innovation, people understood instinctively how things worked, even if they weren't familiar with the underlying theories of physics. Offshoring manufacturing and design. They achieved differentiation by adding software layers for management and application development, rather than by designing better hardware.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. days of innovation). We’re seeing some interesting innovation in policy and business practice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

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