N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On one occasion, the company sent a civil engineer to the top of a 500-foot cooling tower to do a walkdown. Tim asked the engineer: “What are you looking for while you’re up there?” The engineer mentioned concrete that’s falling or cracking, the handrail weakening, things like that, and then joked: “You should come with me.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

The marketers I am referring to have a distinct blend of creativity and reasoning talents; they are inquisitive, inventive, and enthused by a culture that is advanced and agile. How do you interview and assess for the modern marketer? How does marketing deliver value to the organization?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Indeed, the best future HR and Procurement leaders may resemble a hybrid, like a “ Workforce Engineer ,” adept at both Operations Engineering and Strategic HR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

They want to seize on the promise of AI, machine learning, and people analytics to improve business results and enhance their career prospects. Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. But their priorities can conflict with other parts of the business.

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Talent Management Technology Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. In the future, we will screen participants to make sure they truly want a career in tech, not just a higher salary.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so. How to Compete When IT Is Abundant. Now, however, the model is changing. Can UX Save Enterprise IT?

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Leaders also provided the sites with detailed instructions on how to implement these new practices. For example, the efficiency lens in China led to an adoption of the practice that was out of line with the goals of the innovation center to be more agile and iterative. They even sent one of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Amidst this swirl of inquiry, however, there has been less attention given to the precise nature of organizing for innovation, the capabilities that drive discovery, and above all, how to lead innovation successfully. ” So how does it work? Second, they try things and learn by discovery, demonstrating creative agility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. To create your own connections, ask yourself why your identities are important to you and how they relate to one another. Another approach is to consider how your identities complement each other.

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