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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2019

If you are in a competitive marketplace and you rely on natural resources or raw materials, chances are that you will need to look for innovative ways to reduce your costs and maintain your profitability. 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.

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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. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. The first is to make wise decisions over time that express a coherent vision.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? For over 30 years, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. The move to low-cost manufacturing in the 1990s was driven in part by cheap oil prices. However, the price of oil then tripled in the last decade.

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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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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. New challenges for producers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm).

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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. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

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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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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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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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. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use. ” The Challenges.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. The complexity that comes with this new retail paradigm, in which every home is a storefront, requires an increased level of sophistication in backend operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

And Coca-Cola’s 5by20 initiative which empowers female entrepreneurs in developing countries to operate neighborhood stores that sell its products and create an upward spiral of economic development. For great brands, CSV doesn’t simply draw upon the company’s innovation capabilities. And its self-serve stores save labor costs.

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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. What would be the cost/benefit of flattening your supply chain and moving production closer to your markets?

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The price tag for accomplishing these global goals is estimated to be up to $3 trillion a year for 15 years. But innovating for sustainable development is actually quite close to the processes of “traditional” innovation. This can make the case for innovating in sustainable development more challenging.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Usually in a period where companies are forecasting growth, pricing power is a critical component. Because of stagnation in developed markets combined with unprecedented volatility — in everything from equity markets and commodity prices to currencies and governmental regulations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

But according to a new report, 2016 Predictions for the Luxury Industry: Sustainability and Innovation , that sustainability gap is closing fast. This kind of law clearly drives much more transparency and tracking up the supply chain. retailers and suppliers think it’s likely there are slaves in their supply chain.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? For example, developing our PlantBottle innovation — a fully recyclable packaging made of up to 30% renewable plant material — took significant upfront investment but we felt it made good sense, especially with oil prices fluctuating.

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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. Motorola is finally attempting a comeback with handsets using Google's Android operating system, but is now only a minor player.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Thanks to their cost, the very strong interest in running them efficiently, and the enormous safety implications of their maintenance, it has been easy to justify the added costs of building in sensors that transmit information about the engine’s operating conditions to the ground in real time. Innovation Internet Risk management'

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In many cases, these volatile big bets create bigger movements, up and down, in the stock price of a company than its (more stable) core business. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Masses of social, weather, and government data are being leveraged to predict supply chain outages. But the key for innovators across industries is that the size of the data isn’t the most critical factor — having the right data is. It’s Not About Big or Small. Getting to the Right Data for the Job.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products. but also the risks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While this reality poses grave risks to thousands of communities, it is also the driver of a daunting, and often confusing, economic dilemma which businesses must prepare for.It's time for companies operating in the many dry regions around the world to equip themselves with the tools and mindset they need to navigate this new normal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the same time, dramatically increased price competition by discounters such as Aldi severely undercut Tesco’s “every little helps” value proposition. Regardless, Tesco’s collective failures feel operational, organizational and cultural. Tesco was digital before digital was cool.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme. Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. Westend61/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

But sustainability needs to be viewed as much more of a how concept, like quality or innovation. It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations. But most companies are missing a big step.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

based companies are repatriating their manufacturing capabilities — moving some production operations back from overseas. The reality, however, is that less and less of that demand is being filled by stateside manufacturing operations. Local talent and skills are essential to productivity and innovation.

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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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