N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. I haven't read the book yet, but when I do I'll share my feedback with readers. Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post. It can inspire, and illicit both emotional and intellectual response. Those responses may stimulate action or simply reassure us.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 4, 2024

To understand the impact on sales and employment, the researchers examined Economic Census data from 1992 to 2017, focusing on six sectors: finance, manufacturing, retail, services, utilities and transportation, and wholesale trade.

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Industry Transportation Proposal Retail 69

Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2023

All taxpayers who operate in the Netherlands are obliged to register, and are therefore also required to pay VAT. The zero rate mainly applies to services related to the international transport of people or goods. Another issue is obtaining a VAT number in Netherlands , which is necessary for the payment of turnover tax.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 22, 2010

  Thousands of pilots were shot down over northwestern Europe,and it wasn't long before clandestine operations sprang into place to smugglethem back to England to fight again.   Jongh demanded autonomy and permittedno interference in her operations, negotiated shrewdly, and soon receivedfunding and contacts for support.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Indeed, in an ideal world, the revenue raised by the taxation would be specifically used to finance retraining programs or otherwise be used to compensate displaced workers. Such occupations included file clerks, machine operators, and welders. ” Optimal policy. With nearly 13 million people employed in manufacturing in the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

It’s not even enough just to know everything about cars and their features; you also need to have a sound understanding of business finances, licensing and legal requirements in terms of permits and taxes. Franchises often require a larger investment upfront to purchase the franchise rights and will be a bigger operation in general.

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Franchising Licensing Advertising How To 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Sales orders can be distributed to the manager for approval, while the finance manager can promptly receive credit applications to review and approve.

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Software Compliance Learning Curve Cost 66

Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2021

If you own or operate a service or contracting company that requires a vehicle, you are probably well aware of how vehicle costs might affect your bottom line. How can you lower your transportation expenses other than limiting business vehicle use to only essential travel? Lower vehicle expenses.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2019

This growth only makes sense as businesses continue to grow and need diesel trucks to transport their goods from place to place in our country. The mobile shop works well if you want to get your name out there but don’t have the finances for a building yet. If you plan on having employees, vet the local tech school graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank. Operations in a Connected World. the supplier gets $9,959 of the $10,000). Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Supply Chain Cost of Capital Transportation Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. If we could get better health some other way, just as we can now produce images without film and transport people and freight without railroads, then maybe we wouldn't have to rely so much on health care.

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Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The car service company just arranged low-cost financing to help add 100,000 cars to its fleet; revenues are growing by 20% monthly ; and New York Magazine proclaimed the company may be – one day – more valuable than Facebook. Uber offers three primary transportation services: SUV, Black Car, and UberX (hybrids and mid-range cars).

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Price Transportation Discount Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

How well they''re built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy''s competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies. Equally adept at managing people and operations.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance. They are also vastly underrepresented as managers of general operations, computer information, industrial production, and transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". Will the community have the skills and know-how and means to operate and maintain their houses and the services provided a year, 3 years, 10 years? Think Global: This isn't just an India project.

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Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. And short-term numbers at that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Over a billion cars currently are on the road worldwide and a billion mobile devices use Android software, but these converging means of transportation and communication are barely connected. Consider new software for cars.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria. It’s neither.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Step 2: Measure operating environment. The business and operating environment varies remarkably across states.

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Strategy Operations Policies Environment 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Think of it like this: you can have a very good business plan in the transportation industry, but if there are no roads or you can't get access to the existing roads, you have no business. Entrepreneurship in Mexico continues to be EXTREMELY hard. The sector ecosystems needed to enable the success of new ventures often does not exist.

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Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The intersection brings the world's largest companies, biggest machines, and most complex projects into the lives of people who are rich in many ways, but not in the experience or finances to manage that kind of engagement. Everyone who lives on the frontier knows this, and firms operating there can adopt it as well.

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Industry Politics Project Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

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Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The Future of Operations. The shortage of transport capacity relative to demand will have a profound effect on businesses. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Cost Center Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars. Since cloud-based systems are modular and scalable, they are fundamentally easier to manage.

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Planning Agility System Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To begin with quantitative outcomes, the Indian economy is operating at about $45 billion less cash than what it would have been if demonetization had not taken place. The result?

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. Are there operations you would shed? Threat analysis.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8