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The Next Wave of Digital Transformation: What Leaders Need to Know

N2Growth Blog

Its ability to facilitate secure and transparent transactions allows businesses to build trust, cut out intermediaries, and create tamper-proof records at a much lower cost. These disruptive innovations have a massive impact across various sectors, such as healthcare, finance, retail, education, and travel.

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How to Use Uncertainty and Surprise for Breakthroughs

LDRLB

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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How to Make Your Management Process More Agile

Strategy Driven

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Fast-evolving business environments. 3 They Model Non-Traditional Corporate Structures. 4 They Focus More on Developing Leadership Than Managing Staff. Change begins at the top.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Financed by VC firms. Unicorns are: Small in size. Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Department of Defense and Intelligence community have also adopted this model as the Hacking for Defense process.).

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