N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Kills Brands : As an organization expands and continues to promote mediocre talent up through the ranks, you’ll notice that growth will eventually slow, quality and customer service suffer, and eventually these negative attributes will be reflected in declining brand equity. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Chart Your Course

JULY 11, 2017

Few factors are more important to an organization’s success than the quality of its staff. The US population is graying at an accelerating pace: From 2010 roughly one in six workers will be over 54 years old. The 25 to 34 year old demographic in the labor market has shrunk every year since 2006. 2) Never Stop Networking.

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance In world of quality and management, W. Whether manufacturing or knowledge industry, primary goal of business is to generate value. Well Invested Time in July 2010 By Tanmay , August 4, 2010 @ 10:39 am @Ivana - Thanks!

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

As another calendar year drew to a close, while our cable TV company was buoyed by better sales numbers as a result of new service activations and stepped up marketing, we were still struggling to reverse a downward overall trend. Our competitors offered more channels at a very competitive price, and were able to mass market.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. As leadership, we have to create and sustain relationships with individuals, teams, executives, customers and perhaps shareholders, investors and industry analysts. Leadership isn’t just about directing a group of people, projects or things.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week | Main | The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week » May 21, 2010 Possibility Maximizer: Buck Consultants Knowledge Resources Happy Friday! At

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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.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Industrial accidents can be devastating to the people and communities involved. Scientists are still trying to determine the long-term effects of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to the immediate loss of life, such accidents can leave a lasting mark.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. The higher the premium, the more consumers are likely to associate quality with the offering.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. trillion to $6.2

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) 2010): 253-269. [6]

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. If Apple is to maintain the level of success it's achieved in the past 15 years, it may need to enter those industries in the next 15.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

It’s based on calculating scores for Good Employer (from Glassdoor.com), Good Seller (wRatings using customer evaluations of quality, fair price, and trust), and Good Steward (environment, penalties/fines, CEO compensation, use of tax havens, and society/community contributions).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

But as social media takes hold and changes the way we do business, organizations that understand the importance of these qualities are the ones that will grow and prosper. As social media transforms the way the world does business, the qualities that make women women will become more valuable than they’ve ever been before.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A quality book lends sufficient credibility to the author in ways that – as long as these relationships are nurtured over time — prompt key influencers to help promote it. By which I mean people whose influence is based not on saying the same things differently, or curating others’ thoughts, or being sleight-of-hand marketers.

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Leadership Long-term Innovation Audience 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

In this post I'll focus on one type of market failure: market concentration. There is often a lot of negative discussion buzzing around globalization and market concentration. And among the general public, another survey reveals concentration to be the leading worry about the market economy in the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

and this is in addition to reading a variety of industry publications and periodicals. 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. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&# Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Therefore, we are seeing disruption in the hospital industry. This cost and service improvement then differentiates the insurers, pharmacies, and other disruptive newcomers in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." In the U.S.,

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. percent in 2010. percent and 6.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Cipla, an India-based producer of low cost antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is one of the biggest success stories in the pharma industry. It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 7, 2012

This magic couldn’t have been more vividly presented than on Apple computer’s home page recently, when the “world’s largest company” (as measured by market cap) noted the first anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Taxpayers and workers should demand that open-market repurchases by all companies be banned.

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Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Andre Charland's company, Nitobi Software, was recently purchased by Adobe after open sourcing its flagship product, PhoneGap, in 2010. Chief amongst our motivations was to improve the quality of our product. Open sourcing your work can be an effective way to reach huge global markets, like India, Brazil, and China.

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Software Quality Technology Document 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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