N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Because of the complexities, we can always find excuses: Organizational developments did not always have the impact as expected, or employees/leaders turned out to be less suitable for the job than hoped for. Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Eich , Ph.D.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

After all, one reliable pathway to success is to imitate (or at least closely examine) the top predators and how they function. Certainly, these folks have the skill to develop a major corporation, after all that is precisely how we came to know their names. Many-market organization. Single market. Star power is real.

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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. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure. The results were telling. Technology trends.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. So, open the channels of communication and decentralize decision-making. Choose Your Scaling Path. Gravitate Around a Consumer-Centric Axis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Here are 3 reasons I personally prefer a team approach for this function of our church: Decentralized control - With one person in charge, if that person gets sick, moves, or decides he or she gets tired and quits, the whole church would suffer. I thought so!)

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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. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. But after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, when developed economies effectively froze in place, their appetites only sharpened. Of course, everyone knows that conducting business in some of these markets can be risky. Crime exacts a toll.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Since the mid-2000s, however, this model has been under threat from a new, decentralized model, in which electricity is generated on a much smaller scale near or at the point of use, often through a combination of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and the digital management of the electricity grid.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. But these successes are not by mistake—they are the result of decades of collaboration between business, government, philanthropy, and community. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Create autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

The ideal for a successful Avon representative was to sell a volume of product by mobilizing a network to become users of Avon products, and then to ultimately convert those users into additional sales representatives. An effective network strategy enables the success of a platform, regardless of the role of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Parents, students and the press have all heard too many first hand stories about the challenges of today’s job market. Stop it now!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

In our work at the European Center for Strategic Innovation (ECSI) , we have extensively researched the role of successful Innovation Units. Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. How centralized is the Innovation Unit?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

” And although his suggestions for how to improve the odds have been widely accepted, the success rate of major corporate change programs remains essentially unchanged — it still hovers at 30%. Success wasn’t guaranteed no matter how effective the change management skills. It entails much higher risk.

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Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. Fortunately, there's a rich source of lessons on how to thrive in an unpredictable world, and it has been cranking out success stories for 3.5 But when they have, they've been remarkably successful. Decentralization.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. For example, after the success of the Model S sedan, Tesla’s next car was an SUV, the Model X.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

Increased digital marketing could improve opportunity to connect with existing customers, allowing firms to better upsell, cross sell and retain valuable customers. They have a digital strategy that’s well defined along the lines of marketing, sales and service—and well-informed by customer insights.

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Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

You''ll often find this top-down problem in decentralized matrix organizations where business unit heads have different and sometimes competing agendas. Such organizations send mixed messages to the market, muddying their value proposition. Communication Marketing Strategy' Lead with Issues.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Perhaps the new model for a successful business should be "Nimble." Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. Build, Buy, Partner.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them. We also examined two European countries, the U.K. Highlights from this research.

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Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In fact, we barely have a marketing budget at the corporate level. After three years and $500 million in development costs, it was a gorgeous hotel, the best designed and best located in the company's portfolio. Its success was critical to Alegre's health — his CEO, Carmen Fiera, had made that clear. Again, yes," he said.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

But bitcoin has been extremely successful at solving the problem it was designed for: allowing a global network to securely transact and exchange value without the need for a costly intermediary. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

To protect this vision from political pressure and regulatory interference, blockchain networks rely on a decentralized infrastructure that can’t be controlled by any one person or group. This token sale was done through a widely marketed crowdfunding campaign, raising more than $150 million in ether value.

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