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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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After reading my book about strategic pivoting , the CEO asked me to hold a strategic retreat to help the company restrategize its plans. Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In summary, business coaching offers a blend of strategic planning, personal development, and operational efficiency, all converging to drive your business towards sustained growth and success. Through business coaching, the CEO and senior management developed effective leadership skills and strategies for team building.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

A growth mindset encompasses a set of behaviors and attitudes that reflect a business owner’s belief that their company’s business model is not set in stone. Such an entrepreneur is open to infusing new talents, innovations and creativity into the business to strengthen it and guarantee its longevity.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Quick, tell me your organization’s business model. Can you tell me what a business model is? It’s a lot more than just making money – making money is the output, not even the outcome, let alone the model. Your organization, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has a business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In today’s post I’ll examine the benefits of, and the need for corporate reengineering… Anybody could be a CEO if business were a static proposition. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Cost savings are integral to the business model of most call centers. A few short years ago, companies were still struggling to adapt to a world in which cloud-based solutions and software as a service platforms were threatening to overtake traditional business models. Employee Benefits. Robotic Process Automation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Many entrepreneurs become so invested in their struggle for success that they forget a crucial reality which is business failure. But business owners – thanks to their enthusiasm for innovation – ignore the fact that cash-flow can make or break a business. Craft your budget carefully, and then faithfully stick to it.

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LDRLB

MARCH 11, 2013

[Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. That question needs a compelling answer every day of a firm’s existence, an answer that’s relevant as the business evolves, and as markets and customers evolve.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2021

In principle, it doesn’t really matter if you do this through old-school leaflet drops or ecommerce marketing. It’s the literal meaning which tends to catch out businesses. Post-COVID19, however, many businesses are going to need to find a balance between stability and adaptability. There are lots of ways of doing this.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Companies the world over find it tough to turn good ideas into great businesses. That's partly because, as we all know, organizations and cultures rebel against innovations, especially when they are first conceived. Nespresso took off when it stopped targeting offices and started marketing itself to households.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Push to learn in market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. The greatest temptation is to replicate your current business model digitally. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. New markets are created. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. What's not to like?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? 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. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Strategic planning fails when: It has fuzzy objectives Why is the company writing a strategic plan? That is a big problem.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S. executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy. That leads to two interesting questions. Indeed, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

Business is dynamic. Regardless of how well-positioned you are, how thoughtfully you've planned for the future, or how well you satisfy customers, your strategic plan will not always be on target. At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. The innovation portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There’s nothing wrong with having a quarterly target; cash is the oxygen of a growth business, and it needs to be managed very carefully. But company leaders, especially those who are still learning to navigate their market, must have a deep, unwavering focus on how they will win over the long run. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As he writes in “ The Big Lie of Strategic Planning ”, the first rule is “keep the strategy statement simple.” IKEA is a company that exemplifies the power of strategic clarity. Many people believe that its success is rooted in its business model; others point to the service experience. No delivery, no assembly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

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” ). Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

” It is often not the result of a strategic plan just being implemented, but driven by opportunistic responses to unexpected events. Companies often engage in new activities – customers, markets, products, and business models – serendipitously, in response to external events and lucky breaks.

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