N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go. Question: Where do you see the Deep System at work in your company?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. Don Farrall/Getty Images. What came next was a pleasant surprise.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year. Quality Hires.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' So, kudos to Charan for starting the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

8, to invest in small firms to test out new technologies – such as advanced data analytics or new ways to deliver products – before bringing them in-house. Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example. Technology: Determine the right mix of tools and technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” ” U se of digital technology. ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Social Chain Social chain is agile and able to evolve according to what’s happening on one of the best marketing platforms today, social media. According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. But yes, they do!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Though the CEO may be driving, anyone sitting on the bow can get a direct line to the captain to suggest a change of direction. What about a novel technology partnership? To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup.

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