N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. Not very likely. If you want it, whatever it is, chances are you’ll find it in the “Everything Store.”

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Both men had recognized that global markets were opening and posed a risk to the company. I would rediscover this when I joined the leadership team of The Grappone Automotive Group in 2012.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

Midway through graduate school, while employed through the summer months in an engineering position, I joined fellow interns in an after-hours outing at a local pub. Post by Bill Bellows. With our internships coming to an end, we invited our department manager to join us. co-workers).

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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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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.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. I’ve spent the last seven years building the customer success function at HubSpot. What to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi. What lessons can we draw from how Honda took steps into this new market, which it ultimately came to dominate? and scope out the market. continued to hit the streets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The Challenges for Digital Natives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S. auto market.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Then, inspired by the clamshell cell phones of the 1990s, a clever engineer would connect the keyboard to the screen with a hinge, making tablet covers and stands obsolete. are not new everywhere — and they sport the colors popular in their original home markets of Europe and Asia. are silver or black or white. Smithsonian).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Consider the integrated circuit, which first appeared on the market in 1961. At that time, the worldwide electronics market was $29 billion. The story of the internal combustion engine is even more dramatic. Raising the minimum wage, for instance, plays straight into the hands of the Internet efficiency engine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Going forward, GM will need all the financial resources it can muster to produce automobiles that buyers in diverse global markets want at prices that they are willing to pay. million vehicles in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

It is the gradual opening up of the lab and the engineering department to co-creation with customers and other parties. Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. Take the example of a car.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Consider the automotive industry. automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). For decades aircraft engine manufacturers focused on unit sales. For years, U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. All of these efforts worked to transform Ford -- the company was restored to profitability and the brand, to preeminence.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Society of Automotive Engineers has defined six levels of autonomy from level 0 – 5. A few OEM’s in-market today have been working towards Level 3 & 4 automation, meaning the car can take over most driving functions , but the driver must still be able to intervene at any time. Navigating the Path to Pervasive Autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. ” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

For example, Dürr, the German supplier of paint and assembly shops, may have only about 40 accounts, but each is a huge automotive manufacturer with hundreds of decision makers and influencers. That’s complicated at any B2B business.

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B2B Automotive Engineering Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

"At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. "Our Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. But we play in the real world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. They have to compete just as hard as ever to sustain leadership in the markets that exist today, even as they figure out how to compete in the future. They consistently reinvent themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. Their market value is $9.5 By 2003, there were 800,000. Today, more than 1.3 A more complete history can be found here.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Graetz and Michaels calculate, for example, that robotics have of late increased labor productivity by about 0.35% annually — or by about the same amount as did the steam engine, a classic example of a GPT, during the years 1850 to 1910. of overall growth in Europe, the U.S., and Japan between 1995 and 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

And the sheer complexity of building cars also plays a role — David Cole, the former head of the Center for Automotive Research (and son of a former GM president), insists that this is really what’s behind the ignition switch error and why it was so hard for the company to get to the bottom of the problem.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. Our engineers have also been working with Facebook engineers to develop unique and safer ways of integrating the car experience with Facebook.". Facebook is not without fault however.

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. Our engineers have also been working with Facebook engineers to develop unique and safer ways of integrating the car experience with Facebook.". Facebook is not without fault however.

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced.

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