N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change. Decision making Information & technology' Predictive analytics often sounds a bit like quantum mechanics: fiendishly complex to look at and wildly counter-intuitive.

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Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 11

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Look at DaVita, a market leader in providing dialysis treatments for kidney patients. At a recent conference, Dell founder Michael Dell spoke of the billions of patients who received better health care and the billions of students worldwide who had access to better education as a result of Dell’s information technologies.

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Customer Loyalty Human Capital Wilde Health Care 13

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. One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Undo matters, in other words, because its appearance almost always signals that a market has gone from fringe to mainstream, with profits set to follow.

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Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14