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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

As part of their overall performance management, every Cisco employee is measured by peers and their managers on their collaboration factor, the result of which directly impacts how their performance is rated and, ultimately, the size of their total compensation. For more information please visit [link] and Amazon.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Productive paranoia : 10Xers maintain hyper-vigilance, staying highly attuned to threats and changes in their environment, even when — especially when — all’s going well. This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. They make their bold, creative moves from a sound empirical base.

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Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). While these factors will remain important, in the next decade China must put greater reliance on productivity growth — the ability to get greater output from existing labor and capital stocks.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S. While Welch bequeathed a strong pension plan to GE, he also left the company with a dubious legacy of what is now called earnings management.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

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. For Beane and the A's it came from the scouts, the media, and even the team's on-the-field manager.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Productive Paranoia. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products. Empirical Creativity.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 16

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. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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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. Managers spent a great deal of time on the plant floor watching Norman draw suggestions from the employees while asking questions about the jobs that they were performing.

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Process How To Attrition Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Team Metrics Compliance Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6%

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

intelligence community has not only affirmed that idea but also surfaced a number of mistaken beliefs about teamwork that can sidetrack productive collaboration. Conflict, when well managed and focused on a team's objectives, can generate more creative solutions than one sees in conflict-free groups. My research in the U.S.

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Teamwork Efficiency Team Long-term 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products. Patience and a long-term view. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1

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Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 13

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. It was still not clear that the model made sense.”

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Not only was this a shift in company focus and customer orientation, but it put high-volume tire production and sales as the only priorities. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Therefore, Dr. Niazi designed his program to focus on using outcomes to improve the quality and productivity of clinical care conversations and reduce the time needed for documentation — all of which matter greatly to clinicians.

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Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Since 2002, she has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition; and she’s been included in the "Top 100 Branding Experts" list to follow on Twitter @DebbieLaskeyMBA. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

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Brand Tips Media Customer Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition.

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Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). In a near-miraculous feat of management, those consultants were partnered with technologists and successfully integrated into the company.

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead. It has now become the largest bank in the country. Evolving purposefully.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

They are able to play the role of ambassador, emissary, influencer, coach, facilitator, expediter, lobbyist, buffer/shield, crisis manager, negotiator, publicist, strategist, tactician, mentor, consultant, counselor, collaborative thinker and in some cases partner, based upon what the client needs.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result was multiple product launches and more than 10 years of limited or no success in the connected home space.

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While all of those perspectives are relevant, the most revealing aspect of GM’s announcement may well be what the layoffs say about broader technology trends. The mean digitalization score of workers in the advanced manufacturing sector, of which auto is a part, surged 60%, from 24 to 39 since 2002.

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Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Gazelles – companies that show 20 percent revenue growth annually for four consecutive years, starting from a revenue base of at least $1 million – may be scarce on the landscape, but they are incredibly productive. Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Technology They Can Grow Into.

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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. How talent management is changing. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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