N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Feed them, make them comfortable, insure that they don’t feel that their time was wasted or that they didn’t have the opportunity to be heard - have them leave looking forward to the next meeting. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Hopefully this piece will spare others unnecessary brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While they are careful to insure that their brands are visible to the right constituencies, they simply won’t allow overexposure. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Let’s begin by determining what it is that a CEO does…First and foremost it is the CEO’s job to provide consistent leadership by insuring that the corporate values are reflected in a clearly articulated vision which in turn translates into a well defined strategy. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? My challenge to you is this…set the chinning bar very high for yourself by reevaluating your goals and objectives to insure that you are on a path towards significance. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Inc.com Inc. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In. Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

In most cases simple can be translated as realistic, cost effective, quick to adopt, and fast to implement. I particularly like your sensible and simple "realistic, cost effective, quick to adopt, and fast to implement." mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Learn More… Comments 2 Responses to “Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick&# Brian Rush says: February 27, 2010 at 11:01 pm When people say “the system is broken,&# they mostly mean the way we pay for it, which implies the health INSURANCE system rather than the health CARE system. I would agree that it is.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Learn More… Comments 2 Responses to “Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick&# Brian Rush says: February 27, 2010 at 11:01 pm When people say “the system is broken,&# they mostly mean the way we pay for it, which implies the health INSURANCE system rather than the health CARE system. I would agree that it is.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

A generic thought, ambivalence, attempting to fly under the radar, and mediocre performance will place you squarely in my cross hairs and may cost you your job. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. What say you?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Life insurance is – or should be – a central element in most households’ financial planning. Yet life insurance sales have been on a steady decline for years. According to LIMRA , the life insurance industry trade association, the number of individual holders of life insurance in the U.S. million to 9.7

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The recent announcement of CVS’s $69 billion deal to acquire Aetna brings an insurer together with a large network of primary care providers: CVS has built more than 1,100 Minute Clinic locations inside its pharmacy stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The cost structures of hospitals are a big part of the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Already, evidence suggests that early AI pilots are unlikely to produce the dramatic results that technology enthusiasts predict. Recent research from McKinsey Global Institute found that 45% of work activities could potentially be automated by today’s technologies, and 80% of that is enabled by machine learning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Seeing the potential to improve health with simple primary-care strategies, some of the biggest incumbent players are inviting new entrants focused on empowering consumers into their highly regulated ecosystems, bringing down costs. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Research published by Rosalind Bergemann in 2010 among workers who voluntarily chose to become independent reveals that 74% of respondents cited a lack of employer engagement as their principal reason for leaving. New technologies and services for contingent workers make it easier and less painful to make the choice to go independent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Farhad Manjoo , Slate's technology writer, compares gun makers to other consumer products companies and unearths some of the technological advancements we have developed — but are not using — that could make guns safer. One estimate put the damage in dollars at $174 billion in 2010 alone. TUM TEE TUM.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” ” Patients are protected by insurance from most of the costs of the care they select and have no reason to shop for the best price. Here in the U.S.,

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 11, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The 3 Elements of Solid Decision Making That Cannot Be Ignored by Starbucker on April 11, 2010 Leaders make decisions every day, and the process in which those decisions are made has always intrigued and fascinated me.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

But one key factor is the legal requirement to have auto insurance if you drive a car (vs. As Farhad Manjoo has pointed out on Slate, technology has advanced to the point where we can go far beyond the safety catch. Requiring gun insurance is the second opportunity. is, "will my insurance go up"? just own a car).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In June 2010, I queued outside an Apple store for a couple of hours to secure a new iPhone 4. Moreover, even people who aren't like me — who might find such behavior bordering on the pathological — face a variant of this issue when buying technology: if you buy now will you be disappointed when a new thing comes out soon after?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” Importantly, the research landscape we mapped out suggests that disruption is not about technology alone, but rather the combination of technologies and business model innovation. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Companies have developed models that indicate which customers are likely to defect, what advertising pitches they will respond to, how likely a debtor is to default (and what can be done to avoid making loans to that person), what will prompt donors to up the ante on their giving, and even who is likely to pay more for services like car insurance.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? What is the lost opportunity cost associated with customer churn? Sunk Acquisition Costs : Don’t forget to add in the cost of acquiring the account to begin with.

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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

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. Members would sign up at no cost and would create a profile with their name, professional background, and optional photo.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S. What ACOs need are specialists to bring them back to life.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. And as Sandy's $50 billion estimated price tag demonstrates, the cost of doing nothing is far greater than the cost of taking action. companies are technology leaders in developing acceptable substitutes. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Uber — founded by Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick, and launched in 2010 in San Francisco — allows people to get and pay for taxi rides easily. Gallagher, for instance, saw that his airport ride might cost him 1.5 Put that way, it all sounded reasonable. But for consumers like Gallagher, it meant confusion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Add up Indian taxes and channel costs and the price of American products looks worse compared to a local player.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To do so, they’ll have to invest proactively in their employees’ health – and not just shop around for a good insurance deal, according to a new report from the Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) Institute. Employers increasingly are feeling the bite of those rising costs. Indeed, U.S. According to a Dec.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When the ACA was passed, in 2010, many observed that although the ACA expanded access to health care, it did less to address the equally critical issue of improving the delivery of that care. Improving value therefore occurs by increasing quality relative to cost. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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