N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO. Current or anticipated changes in market conditions that will adversely impact your business model.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Missing out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. In other words, they had great business models.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Smaller firms were especially affected by the virus because they rely far more on face-to-face interactions with customers for both marketing and transactions. Face-to-face interactions.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Business flows in cycles: bulls follow bears; bears chase bulls. Successful companies and leaders constantly search for market opportunities/threats and take quick, creative action. With fluctuating markets, proliferating technologies, and changing political frontiers, the challenge is no longer to manage growth.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. What say you?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Leadership Entrepreneur Journeys – A conversation with Sramana Mitra RSS Feed Entrepreneur Journeys – A conversation with Sramana Mitra By Rajesh Setty on Tue 14 Oct 2008, 8:40 AM - View Comments I have been following Sramana Mitra ’s writings for a long time now.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Thanks David. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. And services have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 The business stayed basically flat in 2000. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

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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. For decades, this is how the oil business has worked. These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades. That has enabled the U.S.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

That being said, what company would not be pleased to have maintained dominance in search, toppled the Blackberry in market share for smart phones at neck-breaking speed, hosted millions of e-mail users with gmail, and helped millions of us find our way with Google maps? Google SearchWiki (November 2008 to March 2010).

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Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP offers a better experience, then failure invalidates your business model; success doesn''t necessarily validate it. Test market risk first.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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Prahalad Business Model Early Adopters Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP offers a better experience, then failure invalidates your business model; success doesn’t necessarily validate it. Test market risk first.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Finally, it is becoming clear that serious AI adopters with proactive business strategies based on it benefit from higher profit margins.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For mass market retailers who understand this and react quickly, this upheaval is survivable. Instead, Best Buy is working fiercely to reinvent itself as comparable store sales have barely kept up with inflation since 2008 and space devoted to its vast collection of music, computers, and televisions is becoming increasingly unproductive.

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ROIC Retail Mass Marketing Price 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Since the programming was being made available at no charge, the Court reasoned, making a copy simply to watch at another time did not disturb the market of the copyright owner — the key to fair use analysis. This isn't a fight about control of new technology that makes television better. Who's right?

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Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. After all, even modest 6% growth at this point equates to more than $10 billion in new revenue.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. In 2008, the coffee chain was struggling to maintain its market position and to ward off a growing set of competitive threats. RadioShack.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. This model made sense for a few reasons.

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