N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy? Let me make this as clear as I can – procrastination is the beginning of walking the plank.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. Animalz is as pure as it gets in its approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. Green Building Council LEED certification, there has been tremendous progress in the quality and performance of new buildings.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. There is a culture of safety and quality, and patients are involved in their own care.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. No one is equally expert at both.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Traditional hiring processes that revolve around CVs are no longer sufficient – they don’t pinpoint the right qualities demanded of leaders today, and their dated criteria obscures many talented individuals from even hitting the radar. So the better jobs tend to stay in the hands of those from wealthier backgrounds.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. For example, the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) runs 24 nursery schools in a handful of London boroughs, offering lower income parents high-quality childcare.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Auto-analytics can be a platform for growth and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Respondents rated whether various masculine qualities were highly prized in their workplace; they also reported on other organizational characteristics and their personal outcomes. rogue traders in finance). For example, research demonstrates a common characteristic among innovative teams: psychological safety.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The historical role brands have played – serving as symbols to guarantee a certain level of quality or as images to attract attention – is no longer relevant or useful today. Forming and running a brand council requires a significant investment of time and energy by executives who already have very full plates.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. The product’s former innovation and dominance has somehow missed the mark in today’s business climate. Airport screeners fail to detect fake bombs and guns 24 percent of the time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. If you are competing in an ecosystem world, you must pay as much attention to the progress of co-innovators as to your own innovation efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

They were about signaling a credible commitment to Tesla’s purpose: to become a clean energy giant that helps address climate change by transforming mobility. The design of the compensation plan and its announcement were not about compensation at all. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes. We see the results of this confusion in the (again, well-intentioned) US Department of Energy loans and loan guarantees for cleantech companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But while this notion is uncontroversial in finance, it is disruptive in health care (and education ) where we tend to exaggerate the importance of immediate costs and take a myopic view of benefits. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

If platforms are too closed, keeping potentially desirable participants out, network effects stall; if they’re too open there can be other value-destroying effects, such as poor quality contributions or misbehavior of some participants that causes others to defect. Insight Center. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. However, we knew from experience that the lowest hanging fruits for high-impact projects in a manufacturing company like ZF would be in Production and Quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. Demand conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. A supply of energy that makes North America energy independent. While the U.S. Although U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

However, by subsidizing the shift to green energy, richer blue states can make the eventual transition easier for fossil-fuel-dependent red states. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation. For the time being, U.S. climate policy will be fractured by political geography.

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