N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Take Uber: at only eight years old, it’s already upended the business model of taxis. In core functional or process transformation initiatives — which are often driven by digitization — we’ve seen examples of people analytics being used to measure activities and find embedded expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Today, the list of disruptive new entrants is expanding and the primary differentiator is clear: they bring new mental models to existing industries and create new business models that customers and investors love. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Add a touch of process, carefully. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. It’s a question that I’ve discussed with Lean Startup founder Steve Blank and business thinkers such as Yves Pigneur , Henry Chesbrough , and Rita McGrath. What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There are instances when it might be perfectly legitimate and value enhancing to issue earnings guidance in an effort to inform the market about material disruptions, shifts in the business model etc., but on the whole, the practice is not a helpful way of building a sustainable business that is geared to succeed in the long-term.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Their process — having a big goal, learning from the past, looking at the whole picture to find and prioritize opportunities, then refining key aspects of the space flight model to achieve their objective — is an approach that can make any organization more creative about cutting costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Through this process, Sheila realized that while her boss and others had probably acted poorly, she was partly at fault for not managing the relationships and politics more effectively. Here’s a case example.

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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

JUNE 28, 2016

They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. IBM: Applying a Hybrid Design-Thinking Approach.

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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. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Many traditional companies realize the potential for disruptions in their business models from the likes of Alphabet and Amazon. Corporate venturing is becoming more important.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The likely results include new methods of furthering relationships, crafting longer term engagement, and creating transformational business models. You know them as ERP, finance and accounting systems, or even payroll. Engagement systems are powered by business rules and complex event processing engines.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Setting (or encouraging) high pre-launch expectations limits your ability to perfect your business model post-launch. In fact, the New York Times reports, a fully equipped Nano sells for only about $800 less than the Suzuki Alto, which "has a bigger engine, more storage space and a longer track record than the Nano."

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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. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

You not only had to be able to come up with great winning ideas, you also had to deal with the complexities of financing, engineering, distribution, recruiting staff, and legal liability — to name just a few. The intensity of the organizational demands narrowed the chances that new solutions would ever actually come to market.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

believes that it demonstrates the contractor’s ability to implement different business models and bring the experience of other business areas to the benefit of the system. The trick is to combine the financing model and the development calendar. Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Klara Eberhart, the head of engineering, interrupted. Besides, this is what our business model is based on. I know I say this all the time, but just because that’s been our model up to this point doesn’t mean it has to be going forward,” she said. She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers. It’s worked until now.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. Finance departments also had trouble dealing with the fact that the cost of services and the resulting subscription revenues can accrue in a complex manner. Engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation. Any business needs to make money eventually, but the power of rapid scaling is a huge competitive advantage that those in the Valley understand keenly. Think like engineers and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. per share by nearly a dime. Sales grew 44%, in line with Wall Street's ambitious expectations. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

It is not hard to determine where any particular consumer is in the process, so tracking and metrics are straightforward and easy to calculate. Is a business built on volunteers manageable? There are plenty of examples here at HBR — along with other publications — of social business models that use volunteers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The European Union has 412 million internet users, but its market is fragmented; it is still in the process of creating a “digital single market.” that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?). ” In many countries, several websites or digital companies are blocked. Innovation and change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being. The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results.

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