N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Strategic cooperation’s with (parts of) companies without changes in ownership structures. Companies are becoming increasingly information sensitive, and at the same time vulnerable for third parties. Great attention for innovation. Strong increase in mergers and take-overs. Developments of global network organizations.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

In reviewing recent surveys of top leaders by The Conference Board, Bain, World Economic Forum the six most significant and top challenges CEOs face that need to be addressed by organizations are: Attracting, Growing and Retaining trustworthy and capable Leadership. Setting a culture of adaptability via decentralized decision making.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 10, 2021

In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties. This requires a much more decentralized set of management structures and.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. In order for enterprise architecture to be effective, a company must be agile. For the IT architecture to be effective, it should be between centralized and decentralized. Balance between Centralization and Decentralization.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Why Companies Change Their Culture. The message is clear: Leadership matters most. The results were telling.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

This concept helps maximizing employee potential by encouraging trust through transparency, decentralizing decision-making and inverting the organizational hierarchy. Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, Mason Transporters. The case study details problems encountered by the company and those are very common: resistance to change (by everyone including executives) etc. (a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School). The thesis aims to.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Business leaders also have to change their leadership style in order to still be able to drive a sense of connection and community within their organization. Co-location facilitates collaborative teamwork and innovation, so companies have to find a way to balance the needs of their employees with these core fundamentals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Business leaders know how to go about transforming their companies to seize opportunities or meet major challenges — even if that’s easier said than done. But they must also contend with threats that lie far beyond any company’s control and that require whole industries to be transformed.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event. There are so many different ways that leaders can build creating a positive company culture. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. Should you replace your executives with leaders from internet companies? Companies that rapidly adapt to digital business models don’t just “do digital”; they “act digital.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Innovative. Consider the story of the consultant brought in by the CEO to help solve a specific problem: the company is too centralized in its decision making. The consultant has a solution: decentralize. Two years pass, the company is still struggling, and a new CEO brings in a new consultant. amriphoto/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event. There are so many different ways that leaders can build creating positive company culture. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

.” Now, this prediction about remote working has not only come to life; it’s proved to be more beneficial than the traditional office model for some companies. The advisory firm we work for is one such company. For instance, we often announce an innovation budget and invite applications to pilot ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And new models of leadership are emerging from some unlikely places. Large cities have higher income, lower crime rates, and more rapid innovation. In his research, West found that companies today behave more like whales and machines. The good news is that there's no reason companies can't be more like communities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

After gathering “signals” about a variety of future and emerging trends, the project leadership generated several plausible scenarios about the future of R&D worth exploring further. In 2012, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned a foresight study into the future of R&D management called IRI2038. Seem far-fetched?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. So rolling out a program to gender balance the corporation's management globally across over 100 countries was always going to be more about followership and role modeling success than it would be about a centralized imposition of the scorecard-based approach typical of many companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because digitization has passed power to the consumer, pressing companies to pull together their old decentralized profit and loss fiefdoms to produce experiences consumers find compelling. Silos have nurtured people with narrow expertise and perspective; so, in many companies, the 2% is ill-equipped for integration.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). And that capability becomes defined as the identity of the firm in the mind of key customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Their organizational model lets them then fluidly reinvent what they create next, thus baking innovation in with their disruptive design. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Rather than be paralyzed by fear about who has access to what, savvy leaders recognize that information can empower employees to move the business closer to customers, that decision-making can be accelerated when vital data is not held hostage (or lost) and that visible conversations can prevent wasted effort and even spark innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Business leaders often express frustration with what they see as a disconnect between their company''s perceived value and its true value — a disconnect that''s impeding growth. But in my experience, visibility is rarely the real issue (especially with B2B companies selling bigger-ticket, complex services and products).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The business news continues to be full of stories of large companies getting into trouble in part because of their complexity. And many companies from other sectors, from Siemens to GSK to Sony, are under fire. It goes without saying that big companies are complex. But the reality is that most companies are only semi-open.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. As a result, more companies are being valued based on their current earnings than on their growth potential. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. A trip through the HBR archives shows just how cutting-edge the company has been in so many ways for so long.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. In fact, these companies are not behaving chaotically. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. The world seems suddenly unpredictable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. With 365,780 employees, VA has a higher headcount than any Fortune 10 company apart from Wal-Mart, and at $152.7

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When a detailed cost assessment identified significant savings potential, executive leadership boldly added another five percentage points to the target. If every activity is the result of a command from on high, the company runs the risk of sucking all the energy out of the room.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism: how to generate sustained and sustainable economic growth, built on high-value, well-paying jobs. The reason for this elusiveness lies in widespread misunderstandings about how innovation-led growth has been achieved in the past.

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