N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond Collaboration Overload : How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside.

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Books Leadership Open-book Wiseman 453

The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Depending on your needs and goals, the specific capabilities you seek will vary, but there are a few essential criteria to look for that can serve as benchmarks during your selection process. Review potential providers’ client lists and ask for referrals and endorsements. So, how do you find the right learning partner?

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Compliance Training Industry Learning-by-Doing 83

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. Applications by your personnel can easily be sent to the relevant HR staff for review. Here are some of them: Human Resources: You can use eForms for position changes, timesheets, vacation requests, and employee reviews.

Software 66

Software Compliance Learning Curve Cost 66

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Merit Review: Periodic judgment and discussion of personal effectiveness, and annual evaluation of applied capability with decision on pay level within level of work. Jaques 1998) A manager can get work done simply by using authority to instruct people to do it! Continual Improvement.

Leadership 141

Leadership Team Building Learning-by-Doing Report 141

Mike Cardus

MARCH 3, 2011

Leadership Coaching & Development Case Study from the Exponent Leadership Process. “I The agency, while successful, has grown stagnant ; Sharon is not receiving new ideas nor innovations for the future. Specific Exponent Leadership Process content sections were used: Goal Setting and Time Span. Decision Making.

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Succession Management Leadership FAQ 125

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. We can't keep our artists inspired and innovative if we start letting customers tell us what to do.". Natalia tried to keep the frustration out of her voice.

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Case Study Audience Survey Marketing 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Change is innovative. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Goal Inspiring. 7 Levels of Learning from the Past : Re-reading, reviewing and finding new nuggets in old files. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Participants reported that the program helped their organization achieve its goals (88 percent), increased or enhanced program impact (92 percent), increased financial sustainability (80 percent), and drove innovation (80 percent).

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And as you know, the diretor presidente''s goal is to increase margins by 3%. Cora was the sales director. The whole company has fallen into the price sinkhole.

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Case Study Discount Price Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If we treat VillageCar the same way, we''re going to lose all the potential benefits, which are even greater in this case.". "We''ve That''s true," Annabel said.

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Case Study Brand How To Beyer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Some studies show that the more frequently employees move around within an industry, the more innovative it becomes.”. Our turnover rate is up to 35%.”.

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Case Study Cost Proposal Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. What does it take to innovate at scale?

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Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Innovating Innovation. Vote on your favorite challenges.

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Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Do the same thing in product development and you will eliminate all innovation. In manufacturing our measure of execution is how close we come to our original goal. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION. Don't Cripple Innovation for the Sake of This Quarter's Numbers. Free Your Frontline Workers to Innovate.

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Innovation Objective Uncertainty Productivity 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Setting goals that are too low. Faster innovation. In order to put a quality program into place, the following steps must be taken: Study the activities of admired companies. Set meetings to review what works for them. Read case studies of Malcolm Baldridge Award winners. Failing to emphasize training.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Just a few weeks ago Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co. opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: " Innovating Innovation." The concept of portfolio management is not new, but only a small handful of companies have developed sophisticated yet usable systems to manage their innovation portfolio.

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2018

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

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Teamwork Report Case Study Execution 10

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

However, in the middle of her remarks, she mentioned that, before the ceremony, she had reviewed the chaplain’s prayer and requested that the chaplain make a minor change to the wording of the prayer. Overlooking this practice results in missed opportunities to foster and encourage motivation, creativity, and innovation. Be proactive.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 133

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Broadly engaging our people in developing innovative solutions has been a goal to which PwC has long aspired. But excessive fear of risk-taking — of any kind — can undermine business performance and cripple innovation. Seligman's article makes a powerful case that building resilience in people can be taught.

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Taylorism Taylor Case Study Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5 HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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Creativity Core Competence McClelland Team 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2012

Management is widely viewed as a foe of innovation. The thinking goes that too much management strangles innovation (just let a thousand flowers bloom!). Unfortunately, too many managers unintentionally kill innovation because they rely too heavily on carrots and sticks to motivate employees. It's all a matter of balance.

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Creativity Motivation Innovation Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S.

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Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

But you can get your people back into the groove with a little work, says Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, a partner at The Innovation Architects, the advisory firm, and the coauthor of Innovation as Usual. Think about when, where, and how your team has been most innovative in the past. Sometimes you need to rethink what you’re doing.”

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Team Brainstorming Creativity Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

In fact, when there are severe resource constraints, it is more important than ever to maintain audacious goals. Here is a case study of attacking audacious goals in the face of austerity, one that should serve as an inspiration for skeptics reading this blog post. The real magic is in process innovation.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a recent article, The Guardian newspaper called for the National Health Service to turn to universities as a key resource, arguing that the research ecosystem in the UK is fragmented and more partnerships that align expertise with the goal of improving public health are needed. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S.

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Organization Content Education Tourism 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability. It’s time for sustainability to be a real goal for businesses striving to ensure a competitive future. And at Harvard Business Review, we want to lead a discussion about how to make that happen. Business Leaders Want to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord. by Andrew Winston.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. He advises bringing everyone together to discuss goals and metrics. Case study #2: Let them improve their skills.

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Team How To Case Study Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

At the time, they produced a report with case studies showing how companies have managed natural capital issues. The case studies are ostensibly the core of the site. The Hub is innovative and helpful because of the partnership tools. The company just released the latest update on the partnership.)

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Company Case Study Strategic Planning Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

But bigger in terms of having the confidence to propel growth and set courageous goals. It also aims to move up the charts from it's 18th slot — Guanaes keeps a poster mapping the competition in his office — and to create a non-profit to mobilize companies for social innovation. Convene coalitions to increase impact.

Hotels 17

Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

But bigger in terms of having the confidence to propel growth and set courageous goals. It also aims to move up the charts from it's 18th slot — Guanaes keeps a poster mapping the competition in his office — and to create a non-profit to mobilize companies for social innovation. Convene coalitions to increase impact.

Hotels 16

Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Some of the most exciting — and challenging — innovations in social media are around how to enable users of sites like Facebook and Pinterest to make recommendations, referrals, or "likes" of the products and services they use. This means they want to talk to your customers. Social media understands this and facilitates it.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8