N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 399

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

The book shared that winners do ALL 4 of the following activities: Strategy - Team based game plans Execution - Top quartile performance Culture - High performance team Flat Structure – Minimize bureaucracy And that they do ANY 2 of 4 following activities: Talent - Build & grow talented employees Innovation - Disruptive, innovative (..)

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Back in January 2009, my colleague Tim Huse and I wrote an article for Forbes.com in which we offered some predictions based on a pattern we'd observed while doing research for The Silver Lining. These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation.

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Disruptive Innovation Benchmarking Sample Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers. These "tried and tested" solutions are ripe for disrupting various developed-nation market segments with shorter deployment times and lower cost structures.

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Technology Innovation CRM Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. billion in 2009, Gatorade hit $5.6 From a low of less than $4.5

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Productivity Products Innovation Diversity 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. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. Love your returns.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. History affords plenty of examples of the right ways and the wrong ways to manage the regulatory transition from one paradigm to the next. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from. Lawmakers face a critical choice.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Unpacking the past decade's experience with innovation can guide us. In 2009, Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist for Businessweek and founder of a key economics blog , presented new research in a cover story called " The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. " Here's what I've been thinking. and the level of employment.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

The shop's small retail footprint means there is no "back of the store" and certainly no sophisticated inventory management software. These observations weren't closely connected with my client work, but they did help to provide local context and might ultimately spur thoughts about opportunities for innovation.

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Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." "On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11