N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. When you start a company, what you’re really doing is getting other people to latch on to an idea. And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. The company was one dream.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Kind regards, Ian 19 April Dear all, CMI's chief executive Ann Francke has been commenting on the importance of leadership in getting company culture right. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? You can learn more in FE News.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. Economy Information & technology Internet'

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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. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. percentage points in 2003-2012. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Not likely. years in 2013 from 60.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Innovation Internet' Jassy and Amazon could have come up with a solution to this internal scaling problem and stopped there.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

So how can a company spend more time on the valuable, expensive side and less on the free side? Without such data it is simply too easy for competitors to let you do the hard work of innovation, then copy your insights and erode your competitive advantage. Companies should seek to create advantage via proprietary data structures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. It''s also misguided.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world. Collaboration Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. But what if Apple followed through on rumors that it might acquire Tesla, Elon Musk’s rapidly growing electric vehicle company?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. And in the earliest stages of a company, the need to organize, motivate and inspire large groups of people to accomplish shared goals may not be obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Look at the companies that successfully used this approach.". Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.)

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

companies – are deriving considerable economic advantages from trade with Communist countries while we are biting our fingernails,” Berman concludes in exasperation. companies with an offer to buy a $10 million catalytic petroleum-cracking plant and a $50 million synthetic rubber factory. and Rumania. and the U.S.S.R.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Great CEOs possess what often appears to be a sixth sense or an almost instinctive feel for what the company needs to do to make money and remain competitive. The company pays dearly when this happens. Maybe this is why companies become stagnant or die. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. Already, the popularity of the iPhone app store and the iPhone device itself has given credence to a purchasing phenomenon and the clout a device company can have on a telecom carrier's success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Proponents liberally term it “disruptive,” seeing a natural diversification opportunity for the company that has aspired to be “earth’s most customer-centric company.” This latest move has engendered robust debate. At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. Yet around half of all companies we looked at mismatch their approach to strategy to their environment in some way.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. ” Its appetizer seems to have been smaller companies. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

As mobile devices increasingly serve as the center of the consumer’s world, their importance to a range of companies is increasing. One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly.

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