N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

It’s hard to have data show us the subtle societal, cultural, behavioral “whys” of influence; Used to make things more efficient instead of more effective. Yes, efficiency (or optimization to be more eloquent) still rules for most of business today.

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QAspire

AUGUST 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Pursuit of Getting It “First Time Right” (FTR) Building quality involves cost. You spend efforts and energy on preventing the errors (prevention cost) and then checking your work (appraisal cost). Change the tracks for better efficiency. Enjoyed this.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. In most cases the answer is no it’s not…however this is often times exactly how the decision is made. That’s about it.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The following fundamental concepts of influence, which if properly understood and implemented, can help anyone become more efficient, productive and successful: 1. Influence is built upon a foundation of trust : If a person is not trusted there is a firm limit on their ability to create and use influence. I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2021

The researchers used data from all emergency visits in New York state between 2010 and 2014, and found a significant reduction in the average length of stay and wait time when telemedicine was used in the ER. The researchers highlight how a key benefit of telemedicine is the efficient allocation of resources and information.

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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. Want to find out? If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Section X: Results. I Think Not.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. E-commerce solutions offer a low-cost storefront from which to launch your electronic medical records venture. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Indeed, data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published last year showed that the price of solar fell by an incredible 82% between 2010 and 2019, with these advances drastically improving the energy gained from each panel, with the energy cost now extremely competitive against all other forms of electricity production.

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QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Perhaps it was a management focus on targets , deadlines, costs and profits instead of delivering customers safely and comfortably from one side of the Atlantic to the other. Jamie Flinchbaugh.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. It’s really this simple…if it’s not a priority for you to efficiently and effectively engage with your stakeholders, then you need to reevaluate your priorities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. However great leaders and highly productive organizations always focus on team building as a key priority.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Opportunity is on the rise in Africa.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology hypothesizes that people follow because the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs of going it alone or fighting to become the leader of a group. Followers who were happy with the costs and benefits of membership stayed with the group; those who were not either left to join other groups or battled for the top spots.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

"We're looking for new models of innovation. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The headline is that, for the first time, the electric trucks are expected to cost the company no more than regular diesel vehicles. These new trucks will create significant additional value for the business in ongoing operational savings, improved routing efficiency, and brand building. Up-front price is no longer a barrier.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Back in 2010, one of Judson’s residents realized that the goal of enlivening the cultural life of the retirement community and the need to provide affordable housing for nearby graduate music students might be simultaneously solved. Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. higher-speed broadband, mobile phones, smart devices), can lead to fresh and surprising thinking about local and regional problems, and one day these over-looked corners of the globe may produce world-class innovations as a result.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars. International migration is on the rise. percentage points.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While I might spend a bit of time evaluating the most efficient strategy for getting to the other side of said wall, it will ultimately be my focus on the tactical execution of conquering the challenge that will determine my success. A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

health care costs too much, the quality is uneven, and too many people can’t get the care they need. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. For instance, open-heart surgery in one of these exemplar hospitals can cost $2,100, compared with $75,000–$150,000 in the U.S.; The real problem is that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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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). In economics, trust is a mechanism of efficiency. Basically, trust produces efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. Getting to 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. They are using digital technologies to increase their own efficiency and to improve the customer experience.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Does this effectively and efficiently support our values, vision, and strategy? Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Does this add value to our core business?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Even in healthier financial times, such as now, firms often downsize because it is seen as a way to reduce costs, adjust structures, and create leaner, more efficient workplaces.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

But he's convinced it's paid off in product innovations, internal improvements, and satisfied customers. For many years the Latin American operations of breakfast cereal maker Kellogg's relied on functional managers and consultants to drive improvements that would reduce costs and optimize manufacturing capacity.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions. But court rulings related to the second explosion found that cost cutting had proceeded, despite the safety risks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. dependence on foreign oil. The law requires California to return to 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, an overall 15% reduction from today's levels.

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