N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Many people view the topic of competition as almost sophomoric.

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Leadership PR Disintermediation Supply Chain 353

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price. If we have enough past information of competitive successes and failures, BDAI is capable of helping leaders develop options. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Price Productivity Products Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. The price tag for accomplishing these global goals is estimated to be up to $3 trillion a year for 15 years. The case is clear.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. Some years ago, after decades of nonstop growth, the fast-food chain made a loss. It next turned to suppliers.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

One option, of course, is to drive up the stock price by buying back shares, and some CEOs may choose that course. Investing in true innovation. If there was ever a time to confront the innovator’s dilemma and make your old business model obsolete by developing new products and services, that time is now.

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Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. Innovation can be their lever. Innovation'

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions.

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Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 112

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. The need to improve supply chain compliance does not come from moral arguments alone; the business consequences are also increasingly unescapable.

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Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Business Model Innovation. How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies? What can we do to independently monitor our supply chain?

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. Moving forward, consider the following questions for strategic development: Opportunity analysis.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace. Consider how many people have to keep the secrets: factory workers, supply chain workers, and retail employees. Apple Innovation' We both use iPhones, not Xiaomi products.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

LIFE focuses attention on the full life cycle of products, from supply chain to production excellence to designing longer-lasting and repairable products. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

In a recent Accenture study involving 1000 CFOs and CMOs across eight industries and a dozen countries in developed and emerging markets, 85 percent of executives expected their companies to grow at a rate equal to or significantly greater than global growth forecasts. Among them: A focus on pricing in periods of weak pricing power.

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First-mover Advantage Supply Chain Price Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

But a different development is emerging in the area traditionally known as CSR. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth. And its self-serve stores save labor costs.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions.

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Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

As in other developing countries, telephone service and banking were regarded in Kenya as products for the rich, but the emergence of mobile phones and online banking, and the innovative idea of combining them, has brought these services to the Kenyan masses at ultra-low prices. But their winning formula is not a secret.

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Marketing Supply Chain Banking Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

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. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Frito-Lay’s direct-to-store delivery capability, Inditex’s fast-fashion supply chain, and Toyota’s production system took years to hone into true sources of enterprise differentiation. Strategy'

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. auto industry.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

It can recognize a customer, offer her a special package (perhaps a price break on a soda plus chips) based on her past buying choices, and even adjust prices dynamically based on outside air temperature. Innovation Internet Risk management' So why didn’t engine data help in the search? One data stream, many uses.

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Even oil giants from Europe (including BP, Eni, Shell, Statoil, Total) advocated for a price on carbon. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. Companies challenged, and were challenged by, their supply chains.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. You emphasize the importance of collaborating with your customers to innovate," he moaned, "but our best customers don't want to collaborate. They're not interested in innovating with us.". The CTO grimaced.

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. Beginning with gathering basic resources and ending with delivering goods to customers, markets and businesses will optimize the value chain in order to deliver goods and services to consumers at optimal levels.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Water is one of the world's most glaring commercial anomalies, with a price reflecting nothing more than the costs to extract and distribute it. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream. But for such a transparent substance, water's economics are anything but clear.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?”

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8