N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Their answer? The program is pretty much dead.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Employment in high-skill occupations increased between 1977 and 2002, but the paper found that, among the groups studied, all of that growth was in jobs that required both analytic and social skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements.

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Sports Teamwork Participative Class 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. You just need how to appreciate how the tools can improve your decision-making. That's not required.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. PARC has since learned many more lessons — and is now an industry leader — in how to turn open innovation into a repeatable business model.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. And who wants to waste time seeing ads for things you don't want to buy? Certainly not me, as I watched Mad Men commercial free.)

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Advertising Brand Media Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. But the impact of employees’ “network performance” — that is, how much people give to and take from their coworkers — increased from 22% to 49%.

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Google, for example, has been has been trying to reduce bias and improve its diversity for years through programs aimed at increasing the representation of women and minorities in technology jobs and carefully examining the way it hires people. But do these programs actually work?

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Training Diversity Human Resources Committee 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. While technology has greatly expanded the potential for global connectivity, policies matter too and can override it.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%. As Ari Hoffman and Ezekiel Emanuel argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reengineering is very different from implementing new technologies.

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Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. Thinking about how to influence the evolving global rules may seem very far from the daily pressures of managing one's company.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders. If he were to write about the present, he’d have to show how boring and uninspired we’ve become, staring minute after minute at those shiny devices. Crisis management'

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Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Let’s remind ourselves of three outstanding examples of collaboration.

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Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. That quickly changed under Sir Dave’s leadership. We had three pillars to our approach, which we called “the podium principles.”

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Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. Specifically, how the focus tends to be on how Millennials are the first generation to grow up in a ‘high-tech’, mobile world. “How ‘Gen X’ Managers Manage”, in Osland J.S., 3) Finegold D., Mohrman S. &

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. Thanks for stopping by John.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology — it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice.” pm images/Getty Images. of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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Incubator Company Technology Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. Technology They Can Grow Into. To thrive, gazelles require technology that scales quickly and adapts rapidly to innovations and disruptions.

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Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. I scratched my head a little at that statement about 2001-2002, since there was a recession in those years.

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