N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters. What do you think when you experience poor design in your life?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

” It doesn’t necessarily refer to any particular technology, method, or value proposition. In a nutshell, predictive analytics is technology that learns from experience (data) to predict the future behavior of individuals in order to drive better decisions. Analytics vendors will tell you their software is The Solution.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# HPM uses powerful software to show companies where their health plan dollars are going, and where opportunities for savings exist.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 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. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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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. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Pitfall #9: Developing your own social software and analytics solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture. Phase 1: Attention-grabbing early efforts.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Around the world, though, many countries still have domestic payment networks that operate as not-for-profit platforms. In fact, some not-for-profit multisided platforms — hardly household names — have helped drive the major technological revolutions of the last several decades, including the internet and mobile.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. What Google could do better.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I have an article in the new (November 2011) issue of Harvard Business Review called "What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud." After all, companies already have tons of technology; it's not like they're operating at present without hardware, software, databases, and networks. But it should, and it will.

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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. The FAA’s bumbling is hardly unique.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

The central battle pits Apple against everyone and everything involved with Android, Google’s open source operating system. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. In February 2011, Breton announced that he was banning email. . Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 But perhaps it shouldn’t be so surprising.

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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

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. The project budget paid for the software and not a lot more. Then it cut general and administrative expenses and sales staff to contain operating losses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. I should know. She was bracingly blunt.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Community and social media managers of 2011, please try to contain your amusement at the idea that 1000 posts per day represented an unmanageable volume.) We expect the Internet to operate as if information not only wants to be free, but actually is. And then came the Great Renaming. Participatory.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Carl had a Ph.D. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Seed investors are mostly operating as growth investors, expecting that the entrepreneur will somehow manage to bridge the gap and bring a concept to realization. Today, AgilOne’s product is a software-as-a-service platform. Outside the Valley, the startup eco-systems are mostly immature, and the probability gets even lower.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Carl had a Ph.D. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India. Cambridge, U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The great thing about operating a small business is that you are inherently more agile than your larger competitors. If, for example, you’re an entrepreneur who has developed a software product that you are selling to businesses, are you offering it via cloud? What about product-based businesses? Know how to connect with customers.

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