N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for.

Human Resources 477

Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 477

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.

Supply Chain 23

Supply Chain Crisis Marketing Working Capital 23

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

A remedy for this, you might imagine, is for medics to graduate into managerial roles, and therefore bring their clinical expertise to the management teams. There are a lot of clinicians who are looking for ways to put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.”.

Skills 69

Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 69

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

When I’m new to a team or a company, I use that beginner’s mindset to learn by asking questions, understanding why things are done a certain way. Through that understanding the team and I can then develop new solutions that save time and money or create greater efficiencies or develop better processes. Break it Down.

COO 125

COO Supply Chain Globalization Learning-by-Doing 125

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

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.

Price 371

Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

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!

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

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.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 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.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. Executive teams need to assess their industries’ and companies’ time horizons for the technology, because they will have a huge amount of strategic and business process planning to do before their companies adopt it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Merchandising 10

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. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

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 of organization dates back to the 1850s. Adapted from.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One senior leader at a professional services company, whom we’ll call Bronwyn, made the move from client-facing partner to chief operating officer. In concert with team members, you can redraw some boundaries to create stretch opportunities for others as you shift responsibilities to make space for your own new challenges.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Finance Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You can have terrific people working in the right teams and still not see the financial results you’re hoping for. Others maintain supply chains, handle logistics, and otherwise support those front-line troops. You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions.

Cost 12

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team.

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. Inevitably, teams fail to link the structure (i.e., A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Even before the official opening of London 2012, a mix-up with the flag for the North Korean women's football team had organizers scrambling to resolve a diplomatic spat. Other mega-events have sometimes taken their toll in business disruption, by interrupting supply chains, altering consumption, or giving rise to workforce absenteeism.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Earlier this year, they raised $325 million in the public markets and this month acquired BancABC , a bank with operations in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Companies playing development to win have CEOs traveling to the region 2-3 times per year, supported by engagement of the full management team. It’s neither.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. Why does pricing feel so out of executives’ hands? Companies have gotten better and better at that. Georg: BMW has been very successful in this area.

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). So, what makes the difference between success and failure?

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Just last month, a self-organized team from another Indian company, Mahindra and Mahindra , (M&M) won the corporate award for our own $300 House Open Design Challenge (with the help of Jovoto.com and prize sponsor Ingersoll Rand, we hosted a global online contest to raise interest in design for the poor. Embrace both meanings of the word.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Passionate about helping clients navigate the complex intricacies of tax law, Steve practices as the founding partner of Moskowitz LLP in San Francisco, overseeing a growing team of accomplished tax attorneys and accountants. If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, the businesses or trades may be eligible for aggregation.

Supply Chain 65

Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Yes, that’s exactly what it meant.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The best companies are able to distinguish between these consumers by precisely valuing their operating profit potential, not just gross margin or volume. They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls.

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2019

Passionate about helping clients navigate the complex intricacies of tax law, Steve practices as the founding partner of Moskowitz LLP in San Francisco, overseeing a growing team of accomplished tax attorneys and accountants. If the answer is “yes” to any of the above questions, the businesses or trades may be eligible for aggregation.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain CPA Real Estate Guidelines 57