N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. In the guitar business , too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Independent retailers are savvy operators and are eager to join the fray if given the opportunity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. That means you need compelling incentives to have people join your community. Building a new Social Nation isn’t just about a paradigm shift in technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. However, when it comes to developing the breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations that will change people's lives, free markets are much better coordinators of economic activity. That was down from 9.7%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Is the innovation supported by leadership, management, incentives, and communication?). The four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, provider- and patient-facing innovations, and clinical and operational solutions. The characteristics of the individuals who do or do not adopt the innovation (e.g.,

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the United States, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 introduced the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As a result of this program, 97% of reported hospitals had certified EHR technology in 2014, up from 72% in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Anchoring the system in results will create a stronger incentive to get the initial diagnosis right. Second, embrace technology. Medical technology is often perceived as a driver of health care costs, and there is certainly some truth to that. Advanced software can help physicians make better decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

A 2011 Nielsen Co. If you sell online and have a reason to believe that you are advertising to a multitasking audience, then TV ads that were created to operate under high levels of attention, such as imagery-focus ads, will not work. Advertising Sales Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. PayPal ate the costs of fraud and emphasized rapid growth by simplifying transactions and incenting participants to attract others.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Technology is making it easier to connect with rural consumers in so-called media dark areas. They charge for their services and earn commissions on those sales as well as points toward incentives such as salon tables or mirrors. Worldwide, there are 3.4 Despite their small size, some of the stores sell as many as 200 different items.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. I think not, and I’ll explain why. Even though I have seen this phrase quoted by some very bright people whom I respect, it just doesn’t resonate with me. _I wrote a post on my experience on this topic a couple months back.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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