N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

There must always be a ‘something’ which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs them, and rivets their attention… Nothing more enhances authority than silence. Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

Bryk and Schneider found that far and away the most powerful factor affecting school improvement during the 1990’s in Chicago was “relational trust.” In 2003, Jeffrey Dyer and Wujin Chu studied buyer-supplier relationships among eight major automakers in Japan, Korea and the U.S. Money, governance, curriculum, etc.

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Policies McCarthy Bottom-up Godin 170

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Powered by WordPress. Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting – Teams that do better at managing their time achieve better results. The concept of agendas is critical to better time management, whether the application of the concept is focused on project team work or meetings in general.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Innovation Education Survey Training 16

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.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. For employees to do that, they need to feel a powerful sense of purpose, reinforced by a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

Company 8

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. In other words, these managers are rewarded less for outperforming their competitors.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment. But the solutions may not be housed on their own soil.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? We asked nearly 200 life sciences executives about long-term trends that posed fundamental threats to their businesses and how management was dealing with them.

Industry 8

Industry Pharmaceuticals Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. The truck was idling at a pickup point, blocking traffic, with smoke pouring out of its exhaust.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

The gurus have written detailed descriptions of how companies should establish the process owners, process councils, and other pieces of a formal process governance structure to manage their six to 10 core, cross-functional processes. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. from 2004 to 2007.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Before addressing that question directly, let’s start with some basic premises: Consumers need an ample choice of innovative, well-priced insurance products. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.”

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Insurance Company Price Quality 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. those with lower scores believe it is the role of management to identify and solve problems, so they essentially check their brains in at the door and not pick them up until they leave work.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. First is staying power.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation. Innovation Strategy' An HBR Insight Center. Why Germany Dominates the U.S.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. A 2003 U.S. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse. Warning labels are everywhere.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The value of the annuity derived from the "margin" produced from consumption of utilities (produced on-site and off-grid using all green, carbon-neutral systems) and the daily needs for goods and services is so powerful that, properly modulated, it can be used as a subsidy to deliver very-low cost or "free" homes.

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Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Legal solutions are by their nature blunt instruments for managing uncertainty. Spam e-mails were made illegal by a 2003 federal law, but all that law has done is to provide lifetime employment for lawyers at the Federal Trade Commission. But maybe the company has evolved to the next stage of privacy management.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s not that we lack powerful ways to approach strategy; it’s that we lack a robust way to select the right ones for the right circumstances. The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

Such was the remarkable power of the trade embargo the U.S. businessmen are known for their well-developed spirit of enterprise, a knack for innovation, and an ability to identify untapped growth opportunities,” he says ingratiatingly. “I Crisis management Global business Government' imports to the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.S.R.

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Licensing Politics Crisis Management Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. As far back as the early 1990s, Pitney Bowes focused on patient education and consumerism and prevention and care management to slow cost growth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients. Health care is similar.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Similarly, researchers at the OECD have found that markups — a measure of companies’ profits and market power — have increased more in digitally-intensive industries. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? counterpart, Match.com.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year). Marrion Barraud for HBR. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt.

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Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8