N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 5, 2013

Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and New York, advising large corporations on the strategic use of information technology. He’s been a [.].

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Wilde Drucker Creativity Information Technology 80

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. That’s what you see in Google.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. The feature? Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. It was a big deal. Undo was new again a few years later.

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Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14