N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Innovate: Your brand will have at best a limited shelf life if a culture of innovation doesn’t pervade your business. Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process. Mixed messaging or practices has killed many a brand. It's interesting to read about build a brand.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office is a good case in point, with the blame placed on access to finance and regulatory hurdles. Opportunity costs. Positive or negative?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wharton research further elaborates on this point by pointing out that immigrant founders not only create jobs, but also bring considerable finance with them. Historically, immigrants have helped America lead the world in technological innovation,” the authors say. That’s roughly twice the number who were leaving per year in 2010.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

As should be obvious, this set of metrics is biased not only to product centric data, but also toward historical data, and does not take into account experience or forward looking trends & preferences. CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. This post is a great example of facing up to the expedient and popular trend of using no as a silver bullet. While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative. I Think Not.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Ten Best Cities to Stage an Economic Revival Location is the other piece of the stimulus puzzle.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

If they are feeling your brand understands them and their needs, is innovative, is a good value, and cares about them, they are now ready to jump in and interact with you. As for your brand, how are your customers feeling about your brand now that your prospective customers have some knowledge about you from steps one and two? Are you ready??

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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. If you buy into this line of thinking my guess is that it won’t be the first time you’ve fallen prey to a failed initiative around the latest trend.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What are some innovative ways you can target and reach your potential advocates? Categories : Success Stories , business development 1 Comments 1 Alicia December 15th, 2010 at 8:37 am This story brought tears to my eyes, but overall brought a smile to my face. Book sales have contributed more than $600,000 to these charities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay. A simple cost/benefit or risk/reward analysis should indicate whether your effort will be of value to you, and even if it is not of value to you, it may be to others. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

While I can't blame social media since I've seen this trend in metropolitan areas (old woman's purse snatched; no one ran after the snatcher), what you noted here is more than passivity, it's active withdrawal from reality, which is pretty dangerous. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 21, 2011

According to today’s press release from Veuve Clicquot, the award recognizes successful British businesswomen with judges focusing on the following qualities: Achievement Motivational ability Innovation Creativity Business acumen Entrepreneurship Dynamism Charisma A profound concern for the sustainable growth of her business and development of (..)

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. I do believe the “why” is critically important in business, and if you watch Sinek’s short lecture on TED video , you may see a different perspective on its importance too.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya energizes leaders to help them light the spark in their teams that results in: the proliferation of ideas and innovation,shorter cycle times, more collaborative environments, and high customer and employee loyalty. About Tanya Maslach Tanya leads the coaching and creative efforts of Elevati, Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” This concerning trend carries potential implications for educational achievement, as the study highlights that schools categorized as being in “special measures” are less likely to have male classroom teachers. Worryingly, the decline in the number of male classroom teaches is getting worse,” the authors explain.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. You make an excellent case for cultural innovation and leadership. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. As always I appreciate your thoughts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. That may be why some leading banks are bucking the branch-closing trend. Finance Internet Retail' In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. The cause of these trends is not clear. The fear of being overtaken pushes firms to innovate. Then Netflix happened.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Grow it has — the Journal reported that the US awarded 126,214 masters of business administration in the 2010-2011 school year, 74% more than ten years prior. Related trends are the rise in high-quality international MBA programs (compounded with immigration policies that make it very difficult for students to study in the U.S.);

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

However being aware of industry trends, competitive positioning, who the thought leaders are, etc. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? are all critical to your success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In business, volatility used to be more limited to the realms of finance and high tech. Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Innovation Operations Strategy' And a lot is happening in Silicon Valley. Product Research and Development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. economy, these trends are alarming.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

The trend is a disturbing one not only for its societal implications but because microfinance organizations more than ever must be equipped to make good decisions — and decisions are always enhanced by the sharing of diverse perspectives. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. during the assembly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. A misunderstood story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The demands associated with those trends aren't going away. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. Today, that trend has slowed slightly in both countries, contributing only 0.3

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. times global GDP).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They say this is limiting their ability to innovate. Could there indeed be a vast conspiracy by the technology industry to exclude Americans from the innovation economy? Many leave the field for other pursuits like finance and law — which sometimes pay higher wages. in Rochester for 2010). in Rochester for 2010).

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They are on top of the latest trends in SEO, SEM and copywriting strategies. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. Content Marketing Institute They do well in research and predicting trends. This is not 2010, a lot has changed over the past couple of years.

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