N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9 About the Author.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. Small groups of say 2 or 3 members, not part of a larger operation, can share and/or rotate the roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel). And perhaps they haven't for a long time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. Enron owned the largest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S., So why did Enron go bankrupt?

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

The effects are felt not just mentally, but throughout their nervous systems. between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2001, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. The master chiefs weren’t used to meeting with the Chief of Naval Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. But this is rare.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks. million jobs were affected by the. Unemployment is at an eight-year high.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Since 2001 LVMH has studied its life cycle carbon footprint, focusing on both the obvious energy hogs — its stores and distribution — and brand-specific issues, such as packaging in spirits and personal care. Krug also uses a fun, innovative tracking system to share information with consumers. Managing Carbon and Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 The Future of Operations. On the service side, the installation and maintenance of new systems in roads, power grids, and buildings (including homes), is likely to create jobs. million, were the largest in U.S. manufacturing output.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? Not likely. Federal Trade Commission says 15% to 20% of all reader reviews might be fake.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

But in a world where most companies don’t operate on the frontiers of digital transformation, and most employees aren’t tech geeks or app developers, our appetite for unconventional talent strategies should probably extend to more conventional parts of the economy. Turnover is absurdly low.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. Go after it aggressively, even if it means risking making hiring and operating mistakes and wasting capital — so long as this capital is relatively cheap, as it was for Akamai in the midst of the Internet bubble.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

In a recent survey , more than 40 percent of IT professionals said that the spike in internet use has affected their office computer operations in recent years, in some cases causing their systems to grind to a halt. It's been estimated that 2.5 This year, estimates of lost productivity range from $175 million to $1 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. The organization's ultimate aim is to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV. To continue this success, we need two things.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

. “The boundary of the system to be described…may be drawn around a single company or, around an industry, or as in Japan in 1950, the whole country. In the fall of 2001, shortly after 9/11, I was invited to deliver a presentation on an integration of ideas from W. The aim must include plans for the future.”

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CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

It seeks to achieve those goals by helping you become a knowledgeable, empowered, and sophisticated traveler who has mastered an increasingly complex and frustrating system and can work it to his or her advantage. In 2001, I was the State Department Correspondent for the Washington Times. What brought you to write this book?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” By Jim Collins. By Daniel H. ” 10.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Ofek cites the example of Intel, which in 2001 introduced a 64-bit processor called Itanium, indicating that the product was markedly different than Xeon, its 32-bit predecessor. These types of processors power huge computer servers, which play vital roles in companies’ day-to-day operations. And then came Windows 7.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

While free trade in certain sectors may on the face of it sound promising, history shows that they are probably one of the greatest Trojan Horses in the world trading system. 50, February 2001). 50, February 2001). Complicating negotiations even more, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

In 2001, Bill Gates stood up at Comdex and introduced Microsoft's first attempt at a Tablet PC to the world. At CES, for the first time, almost all of Microsoft's OEM partners abandoned Microsoft exclusivity; and Microsoft's next-generation operating system has abandoned Intel exclusively for the first time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. It would be like building a home with state-of-the-art alarm systems, but then cutting off the power to them. That was in 2001. We’d be asking U.S. jurisdiction. Executives: Take Action for Encryption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The strategy required a massive capital investment in a nationwide system of distribution centers with robotic stock-picking equipment. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Internet usage was growing fast when the world’s first online grocery delivery business hit the scene in 1996.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. Devices from Samsung, HTC, Coolpad, and lots of other manufacturers using Google's Android operating system now account for 75% of the global smartphone market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. Soon after being hired as Ford’s CEO, Mulally instituted a new system for ensuring that he learned about problems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. ” It didn’t turn out that way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." Adding a profile on Facebook has little to no impact on Facebook's operating costs. In a supposedly democratizing medium, the power of leading online companies has only become more concentrated.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. The goal for 2035 is “enter the front ranks of second tier manufacturing powers,” and the target for 2045 is to “enter the first tier with world leading technology and industrial systems.”

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