N2Growth Blog
APRIL 9, 2010
You can review virtually any industry, sector, vertical, or micro-vertical and when you examine the dominant brands you’ll find quality design at their core. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.
The Practical Leader
JANUARY 23, 2012
The two companies in the “highest” category were United Parcel Service and Walt Disney. “When we compared pairs of Fortune 100 companies within the same industry, we found that those with higher scores on the Good Company Index outperformed their peers in the stock market over periods of one, three, and five years.”
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 14, 2014
When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships. Auto industry Leading teams'
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2014
The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2015
From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. billion in 2010 to $4.9 Partnerships like these are also part of the innovation portfolio.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. And there were turnaround stars like Ford's Alan Mulally and industry superstars such as Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos. Yes, there were wunderkind founder-CEOs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 27, 2015
While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” people per 1,000 inhabitants per year to 4.9
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