N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Labeling something as Best Practices is not a substitute for wisdom, discernment, discretion, subject matter expertise, intellect, creativity or any of the other qualities I value in an advisor. Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model.

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. They are technology-savvy fintech shops.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Take Uber: at only eight years old, it’s already upended the business model of taxis. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

Process 13

Process Strategy Benchmarking Storytelling 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

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. Plenty of companies talk the talk of empowerment, autonomy, and teamwork.

Long-term 9

Long-term Price Finance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said that digital technologies would drive 5.5% From the BBC to Groupon, experts and executives feel that the winners are differentiated not by the technology but by the quality of the experience they offer customers. The human side is critical to the use of technology.

McKinsey 15

McKinsey COO Technology CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Entrepreneurs must reserve time in the early life of a business to be reflective.

Company 14

Company Engineering Short-term PR 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PFK tracks data across all the more than 20 AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators , as well as metrics on utilization , which has led to improved quality of care and cost savings among its Medicaid population of children. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. There is a culture of safety and quality, and patients are involved in their own care.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. I can’t help clients lead change if my business model is antiquated or static.

Blog 333

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

Insurance companies increasingly use clever technologies to segment their customers. Their business models depend on it. Of course, as anyone who''s applied for a loan or credit card well knows, rating customers is an integral part of global finance. That should make you at least a little self-conscious.

Media 8

Media Hotels Reputation Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. The rise of cloud computing changed all this.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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?

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

We’re seeing marketers develop centers of excellence, particularly around digital, to advise and support business units and functions in serving the right information to the right person at the right place and time. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8