N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet. They then attempted to control for various factors that might influence workplace performance, such as the region the firm was based in, the size of the workforce, and the industry the company operated in.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio 12 Steps To Building & Maintaining The Team Thursday, December 09th, 2010 Posted by: mike 3 circles image = TM John Adair (1) Leading & Working in teams 3 areas of focus are necessary; Team : the need to develop and maintain good working relationships among team members.

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Team Team Building Training Commitment 124

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Cortazar Related posts: Leadership Development Program Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Little things that make a BIG difference as a Leader Make decisions & Solve Problems Within a Time Span…TeamBuilding & Leadership Process Planning, Delegation, Accountability + FUN!

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Delegation Leadership Team Building Process 92

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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Team Building Leadership Process Learning-by-Doing 132

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes. Jan 2011 Guy.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio 9 Team Dynamics That Get Results Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Penney in November 2011 with a mandate to turn the ailing retailer around, all eyes were on him. He had an amazing legacy: Senior VP of Retail Operations at Apple pioneering the concept of the Apple Retail stores and the Genius Bar. And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J.

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Retail Price Merchandising CFO 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Copyright (c) 2011. About the Authors.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Jobs was an innovator at heart. To this day, Cook continues as one of the best when it comes to operational excellence. Cook's public face is deeply and publicly connected to Apple operations, ranging from supply chain challenges in China to eating with employees in Apple's lunchroom.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate. It operates simply and efficiently without the need for WiFi, yet its sophisticated inner workings enable it to take stock of its environment and easily move and manipulate items.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 119

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion to $8.6

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Those disruptors are right around the corner.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. And a lot is happening in Silicon Valley. Idea Scouting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Infibeam's founder projects growth of the retail economy from $400 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500 had an average stay of 61 years. No industry is immune.

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Each local Goodwill designs their own programs to help job-seekers in their community, innovating as they see fit to help individuals and families. And even if you can't come to an innovative solution, for-profit organizations can help nonprofits directly — beyond your run-of-the-mill corporate social responsibility programs.

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Business Model Brainstorming Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. In recent years, incumbents have fought back.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Innovation. The boss must act as the ‘external force’ for continuous, systematic change and innovation in an organization. To achieve true innovation, you can’t lead like an iron-fisted dictator, where your word and only your word is final. But being too quick to dismiss their ideas will only discourage innovation.

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Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. And when employees feel they can bring both their heads and their hearts to work, innovation and creativity thrive, and customers notice that employees authentically care about them.

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Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This is a true golden age for consumers, who are demanding innovation in both the packaging and pricing of content. The average cable subscriber’s monthly bill, for example, includes $5 the operators must pay Disney just for ESPN, whether they want it or not. As many as 15% of all Netflix customers watched it on the first day.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity. Pokémon Go hits all of these targets , and it offers useful direction for designing future AR games.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Operational Statistics. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. people steal $20,000 from coin-operated machines. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59