N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. What say you? Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Nokia during 2007-2010 was an example of a corporation with great innovation capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's easy to see why VCs have soured on the sector: the traditional VC model is based on high-risk, capital-efficient business models with the potential for huge exit valuations. Even if most of their investments fail, a few spectacular successes can "make the fund" for a VC.

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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. link] Bill Wood Okay, I reposted your piece on CEO strategy direction. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Debbie Laskey Mike, while I agree that a great presentation could showcase the evolution of leadership over time based on circumstances and types of companies, what about creating a "how to" playbook for how new leaders (CEOs) can create a leadership style?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. They lack customer insights that would help tune their business model to attract more customers. At later stages (£5M+), it can come from debt and other forms of financing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. billion in 2010 to $4.9

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

CEO George Fisher’s resignation in 2000, following a famously frustrated push for digital, set the stage for successors Dan Carp and Antonio Perez to reincarnate the company. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. Although Kodak had a slow start, it did, in fact, manage a miraculous, successful digital transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. Though the CEO may be driving, anyone sitting on the bow can get a direct line to the captain to suggest a change of direction. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths. In late 2010 I visited The Mission Hospital (TMH) in Durgapur, a modest town by Indian standards (population about 1 million), nestled in India's northeast corner, near Bangladesh. This was Keyne Monson.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leaders need to remember themselves why they care about the organization – Sometimes this means they have to “get back in touch&# with the basics of things like their customer’s voice, revisit the business model in action, and keep feedback loop fresh with the front line. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform. Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding what was being said, so I decided to Google the phrase “Culture Trumps Strategy&# and found that Stanford offered an Entrepreneurship Lecture by this title, I found several CEOs using the phrase in speeches, press releases, etc., I think not, and I’ll explain why.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I can’t help clients lead change if my business model is antiquated or static. While there are many reasons for this, there is no arguing the fact that the average tenure for CEOs has been plummeting for the last decade. I have long believed in eating my own cooking.

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