N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Here's why and how.". Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You're Not the Boss of Me. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". Utpal Vaishnav presents Know how to walk first, running comes later.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. If "10" is outstanding and "1" is poor, how do you rate your organization on each of these? A compelling case for innovation. A fully aligned strategic innovation agenda.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. By its very nature politically correct thinking is most often disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. Having benchmarked other hospitals, Lakeland’s leaders knew that more favorably located hospitals typically achieved higher patient scores with similar service levels. Here, too, the CEO had a plan.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

However, just as each city skyline is unique, every building represents a one-of-a kind combination of uses, systems, and opportunities for efficiency — so the challenge is how to undertake an industrialized retrofit process that will address the uniqueness of each building. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

But more recent studies show the upside of the 10,000-hour benchmark for collaborative knowledge work — the type of expertise required to create, or lead, or grow a company. How is an experimental approach different than business as usual? Is there a big idea in the innovation pipeline that never seems to go anywhere?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

That is typically where the conversation comes to an abrupt end, because few can elaborate on how to anticipate these trends with any reliability and predictability. If you want to know how to be best positioned for business success, you have to understand where they are going. Think about it. People stay more or less the same.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This post seems to be a good fit for my favorite team, the Bills: How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture. Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As While technology is fabulous, it doesn’t replace dealing with people.". Miami Dolphins.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Our research, based on a quantitative study across more than 150 businesses, spanning various industries and functions, identifies seven cultural factors that drive customer satisfaction, revenue and profit growth, innovation, and new product success. They can be measured and benchmarked for any organization: 1. Customer Insight:?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

How to build a strong team. They innovate to meet the demands of the business. High-performing recruitment teams stay up to date on the latest technologies, embracing social channels and creative tactics to attract brilliant candidates. You and Your Team. Hiring and Firing. They deliver quality hires consistently.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. Our recommendations include: Be skeptical of benchmarking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

"Training is a funny thing," James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. "No No matter how easy you make it to access, or how brilliant the learning programs are, training is simply not the first thing people think of doing when they have some free time. How will you track success?

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Six Disciplines

JULY 14, 2011

The six fundamental disciplines involve strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning. Well-defined goals are among the most effective communications tools available to any leader—yet most leaders don’t know how to set goals that lead their people in the right direction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In order to ‘win’ a new job, a promotion, or a major career change you need to know how to sell yourself – and you can’t sell something you don’t fully understand. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? Financial performance. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Benchmarking.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. When we see how far we have come, it gives further direction for the future. Technology is but one tool of the trade. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. FedEx isn’t in the business of optimizing supply chain activities using global benchmarks. Figuring out how to send bars of soap efficiently from Ohio to New York required excellent managers who were well versed in the most modern operational techniques of the day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Our journey to transform our business from a traditional cigarette manufacturer to a science and technology-driven company is one of the most dramatic pivots taken by a major multinational company in recent history, so by definition, it impacts our people deeply. Our people are our greatest asset, they are the reason that we’re here today.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Data can help identify variations in clinical practice, utilization rates, and performance against internal and external benchmarks, leading to improved quality and a sustained change in culture. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Health Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Benchmarking and adopting best practices (a veiled reference to everyone’s favorite punching bag, In Search of Excellence ). Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. But no company today can rest on its laurels. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Q: How long does this process generally take? And what are the benchmarks of success? Developing the Global Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. That’s the good news. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. The politics of innovation can be every bit as biased and bitter as presidential politics.

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