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.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. A recent study aimed to explore whether the independent worker image matches up to the reality.

Short-term 63

Short-term Incubator Engineering Trends 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. Templates needed to be completed, customer and competitor profiling refreshed, current performance figures confirmed, markets segmented, etc. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked).

Innovation 12

Innovation Budgeting Market Segmentation Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative. The first problem with this view is that it ignores where most innovation comes from. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible. The answer is no.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But they don’t do nearly as well as they could, leaving big revenue and profit on the table.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Arkes 8