N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook. The truth is that acquisitions aren’t just about buying companies, they’re about value creation. Acquiring Value Not Companies. Want to see a transaction come together quickly?

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Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Most companies have been slow to react.

Company 11

Company Insurance Engineering Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few). So we might as well make the most of them — both for ourselves and our company.

Market Segmentation 14

Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Companies today are paranoid, afraid that even their allies will steal their business. It's a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. Cost sharing and economies of scale.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And what did they mean for the early days of the Ford Motor Company, and by extension, for entrepreneurs looking to learn about how to innovate? Instead, his initial advantage came from his creation of a virtuous circle that underpinned his vision for the first durable mass-market automobile. Used car trade-ins. Closed car models.

Innovation 15

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

” The head of strategy for a big IT company put his head in his hands. All I’d done was show him and the rest of the executive team a series of other companies’ ads. He had no idea that the ad they’d just run to launch their latest mass-market device was so completely male-oriented. “Oh no!”

Company 8

Company Advertising Market Segmentation Mass Marketing 8