N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 Innovation API Bill Clerico crowdfunding e-commerce fraud protection platform businesses strategydriven' million employees—nearly half of those 1.5 FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

would shift toward work that was more valuable and innovative. companies to become more innovative? manufacturers exposed to competition from Chinese imports became far less innovative. The first takeaway from this paper is that more competition, from trade or otherwise, doesn’t necessarily lead to more innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. Looking for innovations they could reapply, Essilor built upon the model of mobile cataract surgery vans that first made these surgeries affordable to the masses. This isn't particularly surprising.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers with Deloitte , for instance, found that “ mission-driven ” companies typically are first or second in their market segment, have 30 percent higher levels of innovation, and have 40 percent higher retention levels.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Since 2002, Carl Harshman — Founder, Institute for Work Attitude and Motivation – has studied hundreds of business leaders’ MAPs. Decision making style.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. This is a serious mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S. and then letting most of it slip away.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002). In recent years J.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. patent on July 31, 1790, there was a market for ideas and investing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

But the author argues that the findings are still likely generalizable – and help to explain the changing demand in the labor market for different skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements. Why the increasingly valuable relationship between the two skills?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The speech resonated with me, so while serving as his lead researcher in 2001 and 2002, I returned to his classroom to hear it again. When I first met Christensen he was certainly well known due to the 1997 publication of The Innovator's Dilemma , which won the Global Best Business Book award.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. The old "efficient markets" idea that stock prices perfectly measure future returns has long been discredited.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. Develop a strategy for succeeding in the digital economy—a purpose that leverages your unique capabilities and responds to market opportunities. Innovation Strategy Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. What about innovation? Tim Evans for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. Our Brazilian team saw how well it was working there and adapted it for use in their market. It’s been a huge success there.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

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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. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? Does biology inform business? It’s happened before.

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