N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management” S. Chris Edmonds presents Three Steps to a Bully-Free Workplace posted at Driving Results Through Culture. Mike Henry Sr. Here are three phrases that might help.” ”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. Having benchmarked other hospitals, Lakeland’s leaders knew that more favorably located hospitals typically achieved higher patient scores with similar service levels. It does not have to be this way.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Design a Prospect Debrief Questionnaire Step 5. Identify and Analyze Your Win/Loss Trends Step 7.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. Marcus Winther/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda has become a benchmark for how prioritizing patients’ health can prevent the spread of infectious disease and send patients home faster. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation. Experiment continually.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer , Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how "what we know limits what we can imagine." Commerce was (and TD Bank remains) a unique outfit, but its blueprint for innovation was not an entirely new perspective on making change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A launch event for my new book, this gathering was designed to celebrate a new breed of innovators pushing towards net-zero-impact on various dimensions such as zero carbon, zero waste, zero toxics—even zero poverty and zero pandemics. (If This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

All through, Africa was on my mind as I benchmarked my new environment to what I left behind. But in Africa, most universities are decoupled from the societies and markets, as they do not invest in research which drives innovative solutions. publicly traded companies. Most want to be global without a local creed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Data can be aggregated to benchmark a customer’s operations, suggest performance improvements, and help the customer capture greater value through energy and water savings, increased product performance. more likely to use data to benchmark customers and advise them on how to realize greater value. Digital leaders are 2.3x

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Innovation in Cities. The first key is to limit retrofit scope to a limited pool of pre-engineered core retrofit measures, measures that have been selected for their applicability to a large number of existing buildings. Insight Center. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Engineer organizational breakdowns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer sharing its revenue, performance metrics, and analysis on a public dashboard makes it easy for other companies to benchmark their own progress, evaluate the usefulness of different metrics, and apply Buffer’s learning to their own business. The local economy gets stronger while entrepreneurs and innovative business ideas get a boost.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) The what question is in part context-dependent. Employees who are smarter, nicer, and more hardworking than their peers will always be in demand. Web scraping.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many cases, challenges faced by emerging markets will require innovative solutions that deliver a higher comparative performance at a lower cost than what existing technology can provide. Engineers are very good at solving problems they know are problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A launch event for my new book, this gathering was designed to celebrate a new breed of innovators pushing towards net-zero-impact on various dimensions such as zero carbon, zero waste, zero toxics—even zero poverty and zero pandemics. (If This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.

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Benchmarking Bottom-up Industry Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Borisch compiled his list back in 1959, and published it in an obscure journal called Product Engineering. All too often, especially in long-established companies, expertise gets in the way of innovation. So why not learn from innovators outside your industry as a way to shake things up and leapfrog your rivals?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Vision before action. percent margin within three years on the lowest reimbursement received.

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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. Financial performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

An engineer who has the capacity to service 10 machines creates, say, $50,000 of value regardless of whether the firm has 100 or 1,000 machines. But this $1 billion provides a benchmark against which to compare the pay of $10 million, to decide whether it’s fair. In contrast, most employees’ actions are less scalable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Apple’s distinctively intuitive product and user interface design similarly involves customer insight, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. These operate outside the functional structure entirely, led by top executives with newly created job descriptions: Chief Digital, Risk, or Innovation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Benchmarking.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Benchmarking.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. If you find a way to build adaptable skills that can be flexed to different industries or department functions (marketing to engineering for example), then you have the recipe for success. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role. Self-assuredness.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. People are the company’s most valuable resource, representing 28% of the Big Picture. Each year, one-third of the U.S. Partially Address.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The sad news of the passing of Roger Bannister , the first human being to run a four-minute mile, got me thinking about his legacy—not just as one of the great athletes of the past century, but as an innovator, a change agent, and an icon of success. Was there a genetic engineering experiment that created a new race of super runners?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. I’ve seen firsthand that incredibly valuable insights come from different perspectives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When I started building WATTx , an innovation lab for smart climate solutions in the Internet of Things (IoT) space six months ago, I quickly came to this exact realization. Another aspect that has worked well was to use our first hires as benchmarks for any future hires (assuming we’ve gotten the first calls right).

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