N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Engines of creation. This has resulted in the share of overall employment in young firms falling from around half of the workforce in 1980 to just 39% by 2006. It runs the risk that startups targeting niche problems get crowded out in favor of those forced to chase mass market problems. in 1985 to 5.3%

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 19, 2015

When he took over as Ford’s CEO in 2006, the company was in dire straits, with market share down 25 percent since 1990 and its very existence threatened by the great recession. He simply reported on the condition of the company with an attention to detail befitting his background as an engineer. It sounds simple, and it is.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game.

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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. Another noteworthy minivation was Audi’s Q7 luxury SUV, launched in 2006 for €55,000.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day. Have fun with your father in law and congratulations to you and your wife on the upcoming birth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion. In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While the technology supporting sales process have clearly evolved, the traditional sales strategies proffered by sales gurus 20 or 30 years ago have not kept pace with market needs. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. Pfizer Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

The company also aspired to raise the overseas portion of its revenue in response to the projected shrinking of the Japanese GDP as a portion of global GDP ( from 12% in 2006 to 3% in 2050 ) and wanted to expand its global talent pool. Above all, company aspired to become the number one internet services company in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. While this story is not new, it represents the perfect example of a phenomenal corporate turnaround and the skills required to engineer such a recovery. What do you do next? By 2010, sales exceeded $2B.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

As consumers spend an increasing amount of their time in cyberspace, companies are developing techniques to maximize the marketing capabilities afforded by cookies and other online surveillance tools. The New Tools of Marketing. Sharing feels good. Insight Center. Sponsored by Percolate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

More recently, SpaceX, the rocketry and spacecraft company founded by legendary entrepreneur Elon Musk, developed its Falcon 9 launch vehicle for just over $300 million. Its engineers worked long hours, probably longer than their NASA counterparts would have. billion to achieve the same result. Think of Ford Motor Co.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Developing a robust network is critical to your professional success. ’” It was four degrees of separation, but the relationship Bungay Stanier developed with Nancy proved invaluable. When I started my marketing strategy consulting business in 2006, I didn’t know the right people – at all.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Nokia's market capitalization did peak not long after my article appeared, but that had more to do with the deflation of a ridiculous tech-stock bubble than anything wrong with the company's business. Now the only one left is Ollila, the CEO from 1992 to 2006 and nonexecutive chairman since (he's planning to retire in 2012 ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Executives dismissed the argument, with Tony Ridder, the gruff chairman and chief executive of Knight-Ridder (which was sold to McClatchy in 2006 for what now appears an incredible $4.5 Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. When the industry tipped, it did so with a fury.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

I myself wrote admiringly about the firm’s practices with respect to venturing in an article that was published in 2006. In what was clearly a “Hail Mary” pass, Elop engineered a tie-up with Microsoft that never really worked out, eventually setting the stage for the sale of the company’s entire handset business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. And that was just from one company's private R&D engine, Xerox's PARC. All of which makes it easy to worry that we'll run out of creative leaders producing creative goods.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

When Henry Ford developed the assembly line, he ushered in the era in which middle-class Americans, not just the wealthy, could buy an automobile. It wasn''t until 2006 that Bill Ford (Henry''s great grandson) and the board of directors found a leader that understood the Ford narrative and knew how to act Ford-like again.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

The irony here is that the Star Wars franchise has been focused on licensing and new-platform development for years. It's a powerful economic engine, and it propels a whole fleet of income statements. Acquired in 2006 for $7.4 While the movies pulled in some $4.4 Add to that another $3.8 billion in home entertainment products.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Today, Shenzhen-based DJI , of which one of us is a board member, holds a global market share of 70% in consumer drones and offers a window into the future of competition from China. ISAAC LAWRENCE/stringer/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Developing the Global Leader. Willing to Take Chances. “He let them play it out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. My experience as a father also helps guide me in keeping our staff motivated and engaged. PHOTO: PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL.

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