N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Same applies to the agility exhibited by Goldman Sachs in navigating the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2023

Finance is at the very heart of every business! Understanding and managing figures pertaining to your business helps to improve the survival rate of your business. Irrespective of the size of your business, correct management of your expenses can pave the way for the smooth functioning of your business.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. If all the focus is on cost effective provision of services as opposed to innovation around the development of better services a manufacturer will soon find themselves obsolete. What say you?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis. They are subject to more rigorous stress testing by regulators and have to develop plans aimed at ensuring that they can recover from a crisis. As these parts of the business have shrunk, others have grown.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

And the senior leaders, having built a culture of patient-centeredness and improvement, could see the potential for new care models in hearing the voice of the patients. Their attention was on their finances — understandable and even appropriate these days. The failures of leadership at Mid Staffs had to do with attention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Unfortunately, the financial services sector hasn''t been doing a very good job in these realms as they lurch from one major financial crisis to another. These institutions are already feeling their license come under threat from increasing regulations as the government attempts to address the causes of the latest crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. Finally, the development of venture capital funds would provide the necessary financing for the development of new ideas since such ideas are typically too risky to receive bank financing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

From taxi and lorry drivers to lawyers to pharmacists to milk producers, regulations protect incumbents and forestall the introduction of new business models. Yet if we want to understand and fix the Greek crisis, we must look at its structural causes, not just its symptoms. Business as usual? growth in late 2014 to a 2.5%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Over the past decade, S&P and its rival Moody's helped bring on the financial crisis by completely flubbing their evaluations of subprime mortgage securities and the derivatives built atop them. S&P, Moody's, and third wheel Fitch deserve all the criticism they've gotten over the financial crisis. You should all be fired."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Listen here to learn more about what Shootman calls the “digital work crisis.” Welcome to the Quick Take, a conversation with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. And this is the digital work crisis.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Review your finances. Modern digital tools help business managers, freelancers, and even homeowners organize their finances effectively. It saves your time so you can focus on other important business matters. You need to connect with them and ascertain that they understand your business model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. In its latest report , Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies points to an “affordability crisis” in the U.S. In Kenya, half of the population uses M-PESA , a mobile payments solution that doesn’t require a bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Many traditional companies realize the potential for disruptions in their business models from the likes of Alphabet and Amazon. Corporate venturing is becoming more important.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

That’s because, for the past two decades or so, not having a substantive conflict of interest policy has been Goldman’s business model. Ethics Finance Government' This is a big deal, and for much more than the legal/compliance reasons discussed in the piece. This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. ’ ” The losers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? IBM had a near death experience in the early 1990s due a series of bad business decisions. But in the wake of that crisis, IBM returned to its DNA of “think.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations. Breakthrough Finance.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings. Sophisticated models around churn prediction start looking very tempting. Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. And when Derek had lost his job during the financial crisis, Rogier had invited him to join Contect.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leaders need to remember themselves why they care about the organization – Sometimes this means they have to “get back in touch&# with the basics of things like their customer’s voice, revisit the business model in action, and keep feedback loop fresh with the front line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism. Multinational banks are in retreat, and even digital businesses such as Uber and Airbnb have found their business models undermined in several countries by regulations introduced to protect the domestic suppliers they compete with.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose? Bankers’ bonuses?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. The sad reality is that as in the dot.com example mentioned above, culture run amok can kill companies.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I can’t help clients lead change if my business model is antiquated or static. The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.

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