N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# … Executive Development Opportunities. Inc.com Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. A growing number of B2B companies are using data and analytics to add services that bring new elements of value to customers, and in some cases new sources of revenue.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. In a nutshell, The Little Give teams up Edelman employees to develop PR programs for local nonprofits focused on children and youth. Now we can learn about their journey into sharing their talents and treasures with their community.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2019

Conversely, only 39% of B2B marketers said that they had one. The vast majority of users use their smartphones to look up business-related content these days, and the advent of smart voice technology has made voice search more popular than ever. Voice search is another major trend that you can’t afford to overlook in 2019. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

In a digital deal, the acquiring company pursues technologies or capabilities it does not possess. How B2B Companies Can Grow with Ecosystem Orchestration. Technology can make a significant impact on the success of M&A, from enabling an accelerated and better-informed deal process to improved post-merger integration.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Collaboration Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

These companies are facing wholesale change—from defining how technology reinvents entire functions to how the organization manages new workforce models to how to unlock value with cross-industry ecosystems. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. An effective starting point is to break cities into four segments across two distinctions: legacy vs. new cities, and developed vs. emerging economies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.). HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? Of course, the pricing is always what signals the problem, but behind that it is how the innovation process is set up. Externally, the reasons vary by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Social technologies — the software and services that make it possible to show off your vacation pictures to all your Facebook friends and follow your favorite team tweet by tweet — are not just giant time sinks that keep your employees from getting their work done. trillion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

For marketers, this means updating your privacy policies, but more importantly, it means finding innovative new ways to connect with customers and gather consent to use their data in order to continue your “marketing relationship” with them. Addressing the Third-Party Data Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Instead, B2B entrepreneurs should focus their efforts on small businesses. To understand how small business solutions can disrupt large enterprises, I studied HourlyNerd and share here the lessons entrepreneurs can use to create disruptive B2B businesses by starting with small customers. That’s short-sighted.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. Technology start-ups are the Philippines’ latest customers, and more are flocking to the country’s beach-laden shores each year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones. That starts with developing a deep understanding of how customers behave and make decisions. Collaborate around the customer decision journey.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

The German Mittelstand is at the forefront of a modern management model that builds flatter, more-innovative, and more-networked enterprises. These companies are dedicated to mutual technological leadership with their customers. I believe the model is much more than a niche strategy. We sell shovels to gold seekers.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In organizations, reframers similarly help the business see better ways to deal with complex problems or opportunities for innovation. When product developers weren't sure where to launch a new home flooring offering, the CEO advised his R&D team to ask for input from employees in satellite offices throughout North America.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. Android, for example, is a platform for users, developers, and handset makers. And it’s not just these humongous companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Building customer communities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

A number of companies, B2C and B2B alike, now realize the potential benefits of monitoring conversation flows from social networks. There are several ways in which a company's actions and thinking need to change as it starts drawing on the knowledge embedded in social technologies. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Loyalty and reward programs provide this type of context for B2C companies, while strategic account and relationship management programs do the same for B2B companies. We can see how content, community, and context come together in the owned media strategies of today’s most innovative marketers. Owned media can be used in B2B as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. Global giants have to increasingly ask emerging markets branches to go from acting as local distributors to serving as local developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Organizations worldwide are increasingly using design to drive growth and innovation. A notable example I witnessed was when a VP of R&D was bent on using a new machine technology that made ingredients inside a package look twisted like a chocolate and vanilla soft serve ice cream.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Amazon, and eBay in B2C commerce and Covisint and GS1 in B2B. They're failing to take control and develop a plan. Technology. Think of Yahoo!,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Information technology, however, is one of those industries. In software, these network effects help draw new developers and consumers to a given platform, simplify application deployment and service, and streamline the act of finding relevant talent. Beyond purchasing power, scale helps companies establish strong network effects.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The innovation came about because Laird aspired to surf a deepwater reef break on the north shore of Maui called Peahi, or Jaws, where waves can reach 120 feet high. But coffee has seen other innovations, too. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year. Standardize customer data.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

But this isn't the first big innovation in mobile banking. These innovations are already happening in developing countries. The story of one such innovation, NPCI's Inter-Bank Mobile Payment Service (IMPS), shows how far ahead India is with this technology. B2B Mobile Banking. Service Innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Despite lower oil prices, currency depreciations, higher taxes, and geopolitical uncertainty, the region is still rich in opportunities, from selling efficiency-enhancing technology to the Saudi government to offering Western products to 100 million Ethiopian consumers. We’ve seen highly creative ways of doing so.

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