N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As for me and my companies, we will remain dedicated to providing the physical security measures necessary to save lives in the future. Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. To that end, the Board of Directors has asked the company to start thinking about succession planning.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ve recommended anniversary celebrations to client companies before. In 1978, I was advising Uniroyal Tire Company. My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. Exxon (Humble Oil & Refining Company), 100th. The Alley Theatre, 70th.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. ” Today, leading companies are embracing a new business process methodology. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. More large companies means the gains are distributed more broadly than would be the case with just a few—but that domestic competition can be ferocious.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Before A.G. Clearly, Cook's challenge is daunting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

In the post below, Unnikrishnan shares his experiences searching for an IT consultant position in the Indian and Saudi Arabian job markets. It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. What they found surprised them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In 2012, China''s top six solar companies had debt ratios of over 80%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. The Information Age was exploding.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Despite this very recent popularity, the novel business model of Zara has gone virtually unnoticed for over 30 years, allowing Zara's parent company, Inditex, to grow from zero to almost $20B in revenues. Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. Since these companies already effectively own their existing categories, the only way to grow is to find the rising tide to grow or create a new category.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

As a recent WalMart staff proposal stated "We have cut costs too far, stores are understaffed, and associates cannot provide customers with the service that Sam Walton built the company on, and that we are proud to provide." The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

It was interesting, therefore, to run across an analysis of Google's failed projects over time, together with a quote issued by the company regarding each failed venture. I'm often asked by companies how many experiments are needed to find a good "hit rate" of successes. Google Catalogs (December 2001 to January 2009).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

One of the things that is different since the recession is the approach that most companies are taking to hiring—where virtually everything about the process is automated or outsourced. Then, as the labor market changed, automation was simply the most efficient way of dealing with a deluge of candidates. How is that possible?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. In a 2008 New York Times interview , he said, "If I am going to be at the top of the car company, I want to be the owner-chef — with knowledge not just of its vehicles but their ingredients. All of it.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. Insurance companies have recently introduced many ways to personalize coverage and build significant ancillary business in the process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. Set your company up for success. This could be a function of funding availability and the IPO market, or it could reflect something darker about the U.S. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. Thus a company could be forced to decide whether it should risk investing in a design that it may not own and anyone could use.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Uber has 600,000 active drivers and Lyft has 315,000 (though both companies may define “active” differently, many drivers work for both , and there is very high turnover). And I’ve seen that not everyone benefits from this work equally. In the U.S., But research has found that most of these drivers work part-time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. These include, among others, access to foreign markets for investments, protecting intellectual property, or visas for skilled, temporary staff.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Why, for example, can't we have continuously updated earnings releases — that let us see what companies are earning in real-time — for a continuously connected world? My guess is that, like updating GDP for the 21st century, real-time corporate reporting could create new markets, companies, and much-needed jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Alexander, the Director of the National Security Agency, labeled just a few weeks earlier the source of the "greatest transfer of wealth in history" from US companies to foreign hackers? Here''s the real insidious threat that companies need to worry about. The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. To make each individual's job more meaningful, I have always stressed the importance of the company's mission and each individual's contribution to it. in such dismal decline.

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Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Between 1994 when he was first elected and 2001, in his third term, the Firm more than doubled its number of consultants (3,300 to 7,700), partners (425 to 891), and annual revenues ($1.5 Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. billion to $3.4

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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