N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This simple strategy of using accurate data can help dictate the health of your business, both short and long-term. In simple terms, data-driven insights refer to any information a company uses to make strategic decisions. In simple terms, data-driven insights refer to any information a company uses to make strategic decisions.

Asset Management 65

Asset Management Software How To Finance 65

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 25, 2021

Recent research from Oxford University highlights the vulnerability of low-skilled workers to automated technologies, with this vulnerability exacerbated by a pandemic that has accelerated the pace of digital transformation. ” Accelerating trends. Help to adapt.

Skills 124

Skills McKinsey Trends Short-term 124

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 119

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of remote work, becoming the prevailing mode of operation for countless individuals. Making remote work Recent research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology has shed light on the factors that contribute to successful remote work arrangements.

Company 64

Company Review Environment Analysis 64

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Is it increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, or enhancing operational efficiency? What are the specific areas where your employees are falling short? Embracing Technology: From Simulations to Virtual Reality In today’s digital age, technology offers endless possibilities for training.

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Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. The tips mentioned above will help you build a formidable organization, make better use of your time, and insure operational performance gains across the enterprise.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. They use critical thinking, data analysis, and creativity to come up with the best solutions. Balances short-term and long-term solutions when solving problems.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. Every company needs a corporate purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. . higher operating profitability.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. LARRY: Sure.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

An executive in a power company who was presenting to an important sales prospect opened his talk with a story about a company employee who cut short his vacation and drove 300 miles to help restore power after a hurricane. You can help the audience remember your main points with short catchy phrases. All rights reserved.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our analysis found the health care system is so complex that more than half (52%) of consumers are unable to navigate it on their own, triggering avoidable customer service calls and more costly care. Amazon and other digital retailers have done just that.

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System Planning Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. According to Williamson, a current concern among many institutional investors as well as corporations is that long-term investments in R&D have little payoff. Thus, they exhibit less short-termism.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. There is scarcely an activity that has not been affected in some way, and our professional life has been no exception. Unnecessary hurdles. “Much of that is by sheer necessity.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 103

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. Periodically, the material is reviewed.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

If you know that the person you’re presenting to has a short attention span, you want to get to your point as soon as possible. the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law.

Planning 56

Planning Audience Succession Library 56

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

A half-century later, technology has advanced at breakneck speed. Today there is concerned debate about the impact of technology on the economy and especially on the future of work. We found that half of the activities people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated using current technology.

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CEO Technology Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For example, a team at a large financial services firm in her study displayed medium-high physical distance, low-medium operational distance, but high affinity distance, indicating potential issues there. Sobel-Lojeski has done a quantitative analysis, and her results are eye-opening. What's the cost of such failures?

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Team Budgeting Operations Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Free snacks and pick-up games are expected at every technology company; nursing mother’s rooms and on-site gyms are increasingly common perks on corporate campuses. Vanguard operates from a belief and loyalty to the small investor and trains its advisors to forsake short-term gains if they sacrifice long-term stability.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. Talk to these midsize firms and you will hear the same thing: “We want to be the best in our field” and “We want long-term commitment to this field.”

Industry 8

Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

And, like any new technology making its entrance into office life, it was met with profoundly mixed feelings. But behind the fear, excitement, and macroeconomics of it all are the people and places that are deeply affected by new and different technology, day in and day out. How technology is changing the way we work.

Technology 8

Technology Decentralization Short-term Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. Consider the newspaper-publishing industry.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. The business (private sector) community and municipalities must work together to build strong and clear long-term visions for their cities that reflect the mutual benefits of inclusive prosperity.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Research and computer modeling conducted by Accenture in collaboration with the Stevens Institute of Technology indicates that as many as 23 million fully autonomous vehicles will be traveling U.S. Sensitivity analysis was then applied to the model to account for overall risk and uncertainty.

Insurance 9

Insurance Software Business Model Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. Accordingly, it has systematically published figures about the evolution of its business portfolio in terms of sales by segment (e.g., What makes such a transformation successful?

Company 9

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

More nuanced analysis points to a less dystopian future where a great number of activities within jobs will be undertaken by intelligent systems rather than humans. How should companies rethink the value of a job, in terms of increased performance through machine intelligence? What set of skills should companies invest in?

Airlines 8

Airlines Disaggregation Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

Yet the terms “data science” and “data scientist” aren’t always easily understood, and are used to describe a wide range of data-related work. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. What, exactly, is it that data scientists do? Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Ethics 8

Ethics Learning-by-Doing Industry Telecommunications 8

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. Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

If you’re operating in a highly individualistic culture, select a “coalition of the willing,” people who are favorably inclined to collaborate and won’t gripe to colleagues about a few hiccups while you build momentum. You can read my deeper analysis of Dana-Farber here.) Harness the power of competition.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology. As the prediction horizon becomes shorter (short-term and then high frequency trading), however, predictability increases, albeit only marginally.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Whether you are at the top of the company driving the remix, in the middle managing an acquisition or a partnership, or among the operating ranks keeping the pieces humming, you need to know the answers to such questions. Often, one or the other gets short shrift in the rush to strike a deal or gets lost in the glare of a promising future.

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Competitive Advantage Strategy Short-term Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

Worse, bad data contribute to " analysis paralysis " and stasis it causes. Making sure data leaves the door correctly may be a viable short-term alternative, but there is already too much data, and the quantities are growing. Bad data make it harder to make and execute decisions. Every time.

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Health Care Credit Rating Reputation Quality 14