N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2021

Deploying an operational risk management program that does the intended job remains a challenge for many businesses today. The industrial sector and others have witnessed rapid changes that significantly altered the way businesses operate. Global commerce continues to expand and supply chains are becoming more complex.

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Operations Strategy Management Risk Management 113

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Effective financial management is a cornerstone of successful business operations. Here, we will delve into some key strategies for successful business finance, highlighting the importance of financial planning, efficient budgeting, smart investments, and risk management.

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Finance Strategy Succession Budgeting 95

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

It's typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Opportunities and Threats.

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SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 118

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2024

Many businesses face challenges in managing their finances effectively, leading to cash flow problems and reduced profitability. Automating these processes frees up valuable time for your finance team to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual data entry. Thank you for reading!

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Efficiency Supply Chain Organization Finance 94

Six Disciplines

JULY 25, 2014

It''s typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Opportunities and Threats.

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SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 99

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. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. As an example, Look at Apple!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Trucking firms play a key role in the wider global supply chain and logistics function. Put simply, trucking firms that deliver a range of products that need to be discharged from the trucks will rely on this one piece of equipment in their daily operations.

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Planning Supply Chain Budgeting ROI 94

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

It can help you hone your ideas, catch supply chain concerns, and vet marketability before taking your venture into the real world. Network With Other Entrepreneurs The most successful entrepreneurs deeply understand the industry in which they operate and can turn their ideas into thriving businesses.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

At Freeman, we streamline our supply chain by taking a beginner’s mindset and breaking down the process. Janet Dell is President and COO of Freeman, where she leads all Freeman business operations across the globe. The first two minutes make or break any habit, Clear says. The first step was to manage our inventory.

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COO Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Globalization 125

Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Been busy driving improvements at your organisation?

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Supply Chain Newsletter Finance Article 98

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

Once the infrastructure is in place, the operational expenses are considerably lower. Early adopters of renewable energy infrastructure can enjoy a competitive edge, cutting down on operational costs while supporting sustainable practices.

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Energy System Incentives Supply Chain 92

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

Businesses that embraced ingenuity and creativity found ways to serve in a socially-distanced environment, and they have learned how to weather the ups and downs of a supply chain that has been impacted at every turn. Tip 1: Provide Reassurance to Your Consumers.

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Tips Marketing Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 80

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

While the pandemic obviously shone a light on the incredible medical expertise of healthcare workers, it also highlighted the tremendous importance of skills such as supply chain management, strategic planning, and interpersonal communication. Managerial expertise. New skills.

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Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 64

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2020

The other key advantage is that the business model, including supply chain, IT systems, and personnel management is already in place, saving a huge amount of work compared to starting a business from scratch. Disadvantages. The first thing that might spring to mind is the initial investment required for a franchise.

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Franchising Supply Chain Business Model How To 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

A new type of services company could transform global supply chains: Financial technology companies that act as intermediaries in facilitating transactions between a company and its suppliers. FinTechs are internet companies that streamline financial systems and make funding the supply chain more efficient.

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Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, the businesses or trades may be eligible for aggregation.

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Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 65

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2018

The other key advantage is that the business model, including supply chain, IT systems, and personnel management is already in place, saving a huge amount of work compared to starting a business from scratch. Disadvantages. The first thing that might spring to mind is the initial investment required for a franchise.

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Franchising Supply Chain How To Business Model 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Managers tend to think about liquidity as a finance issue, but in face the behaviors of the sales and operations team — and how they communicate and work together — can have a direct affect on a company’s cash position.

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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. Musk’s long arc in guiding Tesla from highly-ignored sports car, which financed the luxury Model S, which, in turn, made possible the 3, is now crushing an entire global industry.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 65

Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2019

If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, the businesses or trades may be eligible for aggregation.

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Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 57

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2019

You should have a just-in-time supply chain system, and a system that allows you to get the right people in the right jobs. There are several ways you can cut your regular expenses and operational costs. Paper and radio advertising offers fewer tracking options. Resource Allocation.

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Supply Chain Film Outsourcing Cost 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The ROI can be hard to calculate — but that doesn’t mean it’s not substantial.

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Supply Chain ROI Risk Management Operations 20

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. COVID-19 has changed this perspective completely.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

And, when political turmoil in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Mideast erupted, many businesses could only watch and wait to learn what it would mean for their supply chains. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

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Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Marketing, sales teams and the DSD force itself operate with tremendous coordination to ensure that they are consistently aligned in their business objectives.

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Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The Future of Operations. The impact on supply chains. But as soon as demand changes, supply levels at each step of the chain must adjust.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors.

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Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Historically, smaller, lower-tier suppliers have had trouble obtaining financing. They are making it easier for them to use assets such as approved invoices, inventories, and purchase orders to access financing from outside investors or focal companies. New fintech platforms are changing that.

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Finance Company Supply Chain Operations 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

A similar proposal to Split Finance would likely have been rejected out of hand by organization leaders (and Harvard Business Review editors), because its obvious that the Finance function must fit the organization strategy and leader capabilities. Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

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Charan Finance Human Resources Ulrich 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters. Operational meltdowns at midsized companies can take much longer to notice and resolve.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. As we've found so many times before, data and software can play a critical role in making operations more efficient and sustainable. But inventory is not a minor issue. I was wrong.

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Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

This public-private collaboration includes the International Finance Corporation and food and beverage giants such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, and SABMiller. Companies will need to measure and prepare for potential resource shortages and price increases, which will deeply affect their business operations, supply chains, and customers.

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Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 14