N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. Set aside a regular budget.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. Well, guess what: it does.

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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Finding effective and affordable ways to help people acquire transferable skills during their careers, not just before they start out, is a large social challenge. Education is critical in creating career mobility and equality of opportunity, which are at least as important as, and closely tied to, income gaps.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago. So, yes, his death struck me as sudden.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was rare for companies to break into the ranks of the most innovative and when they did, it was almost always startups like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, or Zipcar, not established companies becoming more innovative. Perhaps the most important way to boost the amount of innovation in the U.S.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". We received training on how to place acetates on overhead projectors during presentations.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

At no other time in history has the American higher education system been in greater need of radical change. The place to start: abolishing tenure. Originally established in the late 1700s to protect academic freedom at religious schools (which are less than a fifth of the 4,703 U.S.

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Engineering Education Class Automotive 10