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

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., 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.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

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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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. Manage Yourself Smart: Ten Guidelines for Making Smart Choices in the World of Social Media.

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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. Lakeland tracked the things that drove patient satisfaction — response times to call lights, pain management, the quality of the food, the effectiveness of patient communication, and so on. How could this be?

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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

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

JANUARY 31, 2017

In combination, business and operating models define and rank the range of options available to operating managers in making their daily business decisions. The first is customer interaction and relationship management, which leverages new and extensive data and analytics platforms to shape relationships and target opportunities.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. 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. Especially right now.

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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 14, 2014

Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. 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.

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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.) Talent recruiters and managers will also want to consider factors such as costs, ethics, and user experience. The what question is in part context-dependent. Web scraping.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Borisch, product manager at a long-established outfit called Milwaukee Gear Company. 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. Change management Execution'

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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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. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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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

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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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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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

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 63

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Crisis management. Isolated or unrealistic management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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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. Insight Center.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. It’s simply the character and personality that describes your corporate values, beliefs, behavior, attitudes, tradition, and way of interactions.

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Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

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. When you’re a top manager or even the CEO of a large company, you understandably have little time to take on the entire process yourself. Find your mix.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ve published research that shows countries with higher English proficiency tend to be more innovative and have stronger economies. Executives usually have lower English levels than the managers they oversee. Benchmark English proficiency. English ability varies among companies of different sizes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Mayo staffs it value-improvement projects with a project leader to coordinate the team’s work, a systems engineering analyst to conduct process mapping, and a financial analyst to provide relevant data. Every Mayo value-improvement project tests one or more innovations for improving the value of care. Select a project team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The idea here isn’t to pursue perfect, but rather to have a more expansive view about what your customers will perceive as the benchmark for similar products and to avoid usability mistakes that are easy to make — and to make sure non-experts have experienced it the way customers will. No innovation remains innovative for long.

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