N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Ironically, the most empathic FTSE companies are a bank and a tobacco firm. Technology. Technology.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

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Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens? And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game. Retail shelf analysis.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sports Authority, United Airlines, Best Buy, and Walmart to name just a few — that need to get it, don't.

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Strategy Disaggregation Reis eBook 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

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.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

And the services they provide do keep improving (along with the prices, of course, but that''s mainly sports fans'' fault ). Their market penetration has probably peaked , as younger consumers (among them many of my colleagues at HBR) increasingly opt for cheaper workarounds via their Internet connections.

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Market Penetration Industry Telecommunications Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport. “I remember once being in Geneva while he was in China.

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