N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So to me, we need to carefully look at what should be driving 'next' practice innovation, vs. the 'best practice' frameworks that can cost effectively provide the non core services our businesses need. They innovate & reduce cost to customers. ” when Apple comes calling with the next big idea.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. And the best thing about great customer service is that providing it doesn’t cost you an extra penny.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.” Changing your mental model is a prerequisite for changing your business model.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’m curious about how leading across generations is impacting your business. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

For perspective on the market opportunity, consider: sepsis, an inflammatory response to infection, is by itself estimated to consume more than $20 billion in health-care costs annually, or more than 5% of total hospital costs and about 7% of all Medicare costs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Fortunately, demonstrating your skills in this area doesn't demand that you singlehandedly develop a new breakthrough product or revise the company's overall business model. Is the annual planning and budgeting system overly time-consuming and out of sync with the pace of the business?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team. No wonder employees like them. trillion euros.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings. Sophisticated models around churn prediction start looking very tempting. Don’t get distracted by cost reduction. Remember, making customers successful is a growth driver in your business.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Practice frugality. Don’t throw money at a need.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

But businesses need to provide it in moderation and not at the cost of the human experience. Despite all the tech advancements, the disruptive force happening in business today is relationship building. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I offer three recommendations to ensure that we keep these promises to those who depend on our leadership. The most effective leaders have reliable and vibrant ways to seek out input from patients and families on designs of services, programs, and care models. The failures of leadership at Mid Staffs had to do with attention.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. The other extreme is, “I have no intentions but look I’ve created jobs, ex post ,” and that is the post-rationalization of an economics-only business model. Corporate social responsibility Leadership Social enterprise'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Would you rather drive productivity that way or increase your labor costs by 10 percent? And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. This five-part series has shared case studies and examples of how the social era affects all areas of the business model: how we create, deliver, and capture value.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are three trends are behind this shift: The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths. This was Keyne Monson.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. But they stand in opposition to Mr. Icahn’s determination to tear that model apart.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. In the pharma industry, the patent-based business model makes breakthrough innovation critical for achieving high returns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier’s strategy since 2000 had been to grow through acquisitions and to give a long leash to all the businesses he’d bought. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. He felt it wouldn’t be cost-effective to add more controls at the group level.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Fast-evolving business environments. Between fatigue and inattention brought on by boredom or redundancy, core business functions are prone to human error. Competition to find and recruit new talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

This company has spent 16 years turning those (often empty) slogans into a powerful — and highly profitable — business model.” He was erratic, like when he got caught talking up the stock in finance-oriented chat rooms. Figuring this all out takes truly exceptional leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. Many a company has put so much emphasis on culture that culture simply became their business as opposed to strengthening their business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A recent KPMG global survey of 3,000 leading executives across 20 industries found board leaders were twice as likely to focus on short-term efficiencies as they were to prepare for major business model change. At the heart of this problem is a paradox: transformation in health care can only be achieved by continuity and consistency.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

What legacy costs will be incurred as providers strive to optimize their business processes to deliver comprehensive value-based health care? How will leadership teams and boards of directors orchestrate the strategic transformations of their currently successful businesses? What new investments will be required?

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Health Care Industry Business Model Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power.

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