N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. What few may appreciate is Sam’s love for classical music, ballet and opera, art, antiques.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

The Growth Advantage serves as a comprehensive blueprint for companies seeking to thrive and gain a decisive edge in their respective industries. By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success. Great companies never rest on their laurels.

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Power Goal Objective Planning 101

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. More recently we’re seeing this across a range of broader industries. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. why is everyone smiling?

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. The German Mittelstand is at the forefront of a modern management model that builds flatter, more-innovative, and more-networked enterprises.

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Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. The result : Its return on assets tripled, from an industry-lagging position below 4% to an industry-leading position above 12%. Through an innovation excellence framework.

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Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. And an ambitious 13% said that they''ll settle for nothing less than having the best customer experience across every industry — in other words, these companies want to be the next Apple, Disney, or Zappos. And 55% have dedicated innovation budgets.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

The movement is not operating from a standing start however, as there has already been some fascinating work done to explore how humans interact with industrial robots. Robotic colleagues.

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Bond Technology Engineering Constraint 59

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Even if you are working in a difficult culture, do what you can to make an impact in your sphere of influence. ’ I hope that some of these are helpful.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. It also makes us part of a community of like-minded business leaders and provides a platform for shaping the sustainable practices of our industry.”

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Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” Segment the SDGs.

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Development Company Innovation Goal 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.". It requires new modes of operation. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The fourth major innovation, the current cutting edge of blockchain thinking, is called “proof of stake.” Proof-of-work systems are expected to go live later this year.

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Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

After all, many of China’s present national champions began life as local partners in joint ventures with Japanese or Western operators. They successfully navigated the path from being local tour guides to competing on the forefront of many global industries. Strong local partners are better at customer innovation.

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Short-term Globalization Operations Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit. But to get change means encouraging innovators. and, soon, in Los Angeles.

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Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. Its other key stakeholders were distributors; customers-retail; customers-industrial/food service; consumers; and employees. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.”

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. The Mobile Industry Stack.

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Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Fostering innovation. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. At that time, industries were mostly self-contained within countries, allowing Japan to cultivate internationally competitive companies through targeted investment and trade barriers. competitiveness. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China

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Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Anyone with more than a passing interest in Brexit will probably have gathered by now that things aren’t going particularly smoothly, with scarcely a day going by without an industry bemoaning the impact it’s having on their business.

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Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 140

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer argue that shared value encompasses corporate policies and practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing social and economic conditions in the communities in which it operates. But Audi is not stopping there. Easier said than done it, turns out!

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Increasingly, companies are applying data-driven methodologies such as carbon footprinting, product indexing, lifecycle analysis, and ecosystem services valuation to support smarter decision-making and business innovation. And business leadership knows it.

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Analysis Licensing Globalization Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. They began grouping clients by practice and focused sales associates on developing industry trends and insights.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. Customer service Customers Health Operations'

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Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

These are some of the basic assumptions behind the model that has guided the oil and gas industry for decades. oil industry as a whole to produce roughly 4 million more barrels of crude oil every day than it did in 2008, closing the gap between U.S. As a result, shale oil has soared from about 10% of total U.S.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Peters and Waterman’s book spawned an entire industry in corporate culture consultants and an endless stream of books about corporate and organizational culture has followed right into the present. As such, it is constantly changing as people contest and innovate upon the rules and ideas that constrain their actions and ideas.

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Waterman Company Definition Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We have seen these forces at work in many different industries around the world, requiring a decidedly closer working relationship between the CEO and CMO. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. The two were executives of Beacon Car Rental, one of the industry''s most established and respected brands. Henry was the senior vice president of operations. Their industry was struggling.

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Case Study Brand How To Beyer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. It can keep you informed.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67