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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Competitive technology innovations that could adversely impact your business.

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Executive Briefing – Nuclear

Strategy Driven

For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with… Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Risk Assurance Maps. Bechtel tapped to work with GE Hitachi on DOE’s Virtual Test Reactor Bechtel has been selected to work with GE Hitachi to develop the U.S. Meanwhile, PaR Systems.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

And these factors have not stopped Western multinationals from succeeding in China in car manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, and even sectors where culture plays a key role, such as beer, coffee shops, fast food, and the film industry. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. market on China.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. Or consider U.S.

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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. George Eastman didn't just create cheap new cameras and films; he created photographers. Henry Ford didn't just facilitate "mass production;" he enabled the human capital of "driving."

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Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?

Harvard Business Review

The better we know and understand who customers want to become, the better we can invest and develop the innovations necessary to get them there. George Eastman didn't just create cheap new cameras and films; he created photographers. Henry Ford didn't just facilitate "mass production;" he enabled the human capital of "driving."

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware.